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Originally Posted by Sh1ine
First, if your chains were to break you would need to remove either your front or rear rail to access them. As of now that may not seem like a big deal, but once you have electronics and a superstructure added to your robot it will become increasingly more difficult. Take a look at the chassis on our 2014 robot, we use internal belts, and we leave the tube ends open to have access.
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Keeping the ends of your tubes open is a plus. If not, consider attaching the front/back tubes & bellypan with bolts for cleaner access. Rivets can be faster to drill out and replace compared to a bolt/nut but having the variable of aluminum shavings flying around your robot in the middle of a crisis repair isn't worth the few seconds in most cases. 3467 ran a Chain in Tube running our elevator last year (the layout was identical to a 6wd setup like this one) and having the ends open made the
single repair/adjustment we made to the chains after assembly not as painful. Someone (*cough* me *cough*) accidentally pulled the center output shaft on the practice robot.