Thread: FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive
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Re: FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive
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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto View Post
great minds or something I guess...
Great minds think alike, weak minds seldom differ.

The bumper sides were in three pieces of plywood, connected by a sheet metal piece. The piece was bent at the workplace of one of our mentors. At first, we maintained frame-to-bumper legality by extending little metal tabs from the drivetrain to the plywood. Turns out, those tabs were pretty weak to side-on high-speed ramming. We replaced them with C-shaped sheet metal brackets extending from the drivetrain to support the bumpers, which I made by clamping the machined piece in a vise and whacking it with a mallet.
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