Thread: Save time? Use aluminum extrusion kits!
View Single Post
  #2   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 13-01-2004, 11:41
KenWittlief KenWittlief is offline
.
no team
Team Role: Engineer
  
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 4,213
KenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond reputeKenWittlief has a reputation beyond repute
Re: Save time? Use aluminum extrusion kits!
SWEET!

only thing I would add, looking at your photos

is to make sure you have triangles in your frame - like bridges do

we had a square frame last year made with something similar, and we had a 10" x 18" 1/8" alum plate in the middle that supported pnuematics

we moved the plate at our second regional, and our bot was weaving and flexing and swaying like it was drunk

then we realized - the rectangle plate had been acting like two connected triangles that were supplying the 'three corner' rigidity

we put it back! :c)

theres lots of ways you can do this - plexiglass side panels act as triangle - or even just small plates in the corners will be enough to stiffen up your chassis.