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Originally Posted by artdutra04
Round tubes are easy to work with if the OD of the tube matches the ID of a square/rectangle tube. This gives you an easy flat surface to work with, face mount things to, press bearings or bushings into, etc.
Heat guns can be good persuaders to make the OD match the ID.  |
Thats pretty cool. But I don't see why you didn't just use square tubing the whole way.
Yes, square tubes aren't as torsionally stiff, but I'd think the lack of a joint would make up for it.
I have bad memories of team 852's fiberglass tube arm getting snaped off at the base at CalGames '07.