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Re: Single Piece Bumpers

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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty View Post
4901 makes unibumpers as well. We have metal angle support brackets on all corners of our frame. The bumpers just drop on over the top.
To expand on John's post, we started doing this for Championship in 2014. Rectangular frame meant angle aluminum, boom done.

This year, since we had an octagonal frame, we took two pieces of 1/8" flat aluminum and put it in a sheetmetal break. (I want to say each piece was like 4"x12", but it really doesn't matter.) We bent one piece for the front and back angles, and the other for the midship angle. Then they went on the bandsaw and were cut into shorter-in-height pieces with identical angles that made assembly pretty straightforward for a frame shape that obnoxious.
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor

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