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Re: Which kind of Aluminum is a good choice
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Originally Posted by Madison
The number of teams that run into the weight limit must be exponentially higher than the number that run into the dollar limit. While weight isn't everything, spending $28 to save 5 lbs. seems like a tremendously wise investment for most teams.
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I'm aware and that said our drive train was all Vex Pro hardware thus anodized/Teflon coated aluminum was abundant. I get it and I certainly have little against aluminum wherever it could make sense. But I will not discount the use steel for weight alone.
We do a lot of things on our robots the way I mentioned in my other post and have saved thousands over the past two years on actual money spent on parts. Our 2014 bot was worth (by our BOM) 2.6 times what we spent on it.
Edit: With regard to money I don't mean to say that we are trying to stay away from breaking the BOM limit. The point is to save more of the cash we get for parts each year.
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Last edited by jman4747 : 24-10-2015 at 09:58.
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