08-02-2015, 09:51
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Mad Scientist
AKA: Me
 FRC #2040 (DERT) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: Peoria, IL
Posts: 1,968
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Re: Using wood on a robot
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Originally Posted by scaryone
Use Baltic Birch plywood. Advantages often outweigh aluminum. Wood will bend without breaking and bounce back into shape (of course to a limit). We often feel that wood weight vs strength makes birch superior. Also, so darn easy to work with. Over 80 matches last year (and some really rough ones) and the bot looks like it did on bag and tag day.
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Riot crew always builds such sweet (wooden) machines.
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