Thread: What types of metal do you use for your robot in general?
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Re: What types of metal do you use for your robot in general?
lets see, this year involved:

1/4x 4" flat bar for the intake pivot and motor mount. (6061)
1/16" 1x1" tubing to support and making up the intake frame (6061)
Piano hinge for anything operable in the robot that was not powered by a motor. (in this case it was to allow us easy access to electronics on the bottom of the robot.
3x3 aluminum angle stock (6061) for PG motor mounts
KOP chassis and bumper mounting kit. (50 series aluminum I believe)

where ever possible tubes were connected with gussets and rivets or rivnuts. This makes it much harder to crush the tubing.

and a metric but load of polycarbonate in 1/8" and 1/4" thicknesses. This makes up almost all gussets and the belly pan of the robot that was cut then thermoformed to fit the chassis so it wraps up the front and back in one continuous piece.

and some trace amounts of aluminum bar stock in rectangular and round flavors for spacers and mounting bosses for the tubing where it needed to T into a flat plate.
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