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Re: Team 104's succcessful use of composites
I cant remember which team number, but i was snooping around NYC FIRST and there was a team with an all fiberglass chassis. It was mainly 2"x2"x1/8" with 1/4" L brackets at the corners. The L brackets were just normal bicomponent epoxied on. It looked pretty sturdy, but the weight a team member quoted was pretty high for the chassis. Something like 30 or 40 lbs. Maybe he was including other structures too, because a steel chasis shouldnt even weigh that much. Exactly how light is your chasis? I
Im pretty confident that i can build a pretty sturdy 7lb chassis out of aluminum tube and our chasis this year, which seems to have held up pretty well, is probably under 10 lb (20mm item extrusion).
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Team 1257
2005 NYC Regional - 2nd seed, Xerox Creativity Award, Autodesk Visualization Award
2005 Chesapeake Regional - Engineering Inspiration Award
2004 Chesapeake Regional - Rookie Inspiration award
2004 NJ Regional - Team Spirit Award
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