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Re: Using wood on a robot

We use wood as a base and a panel for the electronics all the time. Also, we do what we call "aluminizing" the wood to all of the piece which basically means spray paint it an aluminum color. That gets interesting during inspections occasionally. Last year the inspector went to test continuity to make sure the frame wasn't being used as a ground and put one of the multimeter probes on the "aluminized" wood base and was surprised when we told him it was wood.
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