[EricH]

Originally Posted by c9ollie

i can assure you that 1/10 is as thick as it needs to be anymore more is just a waste of time and pocketing 1/4 plate is just waste of aluminum.

I'm asking for a stress analysis. You probably won't convince 99% of us without one. Just run it in the worst-case scenario that you can think of and post the results picture, or something like that. If you can show us that it won't fail, more teams might wind up using .1" metal on their robots next year. We all win. If you don't show one, there's a good chance that the first time it breaks, someone will say, "I told you so" or "Why didn't you use..." or "What were you thinking?". We all lose. You've got the CAD files, so it should be pretty simple to run the analysis, and if you don't know how, it's a pretty good way to learn.