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Originally Posted by JHSmentor
for the corner gussets - I thought about that as well. Not sure if it's worth the trouble but I'll leave that open as an option for improvement. I expect it to bend a little but should not actually cause any functional issues. There will be bumpers to help as well as the standoffs in the corners for the outer wheel plate that will help keep these in place (I think). if it's easy to do though, then I think we should.
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From personal experience, you want those gussets. Team 971 had
this starting the regional. That got completely bent up, was hammered out and a piece of 2"x2" 1/8" thick aluminum angle was bolted to the front....the next time it hit it still got
bent
Keep in mind that that is 1/8" aluminum angle bolted over 1/8" aluminum sheet metal.
In 2007, Team 190 had to
straighten their frame out with a car jack at BAE. Note that there are gussets (the little red things in the corners) but they weren't big enough. The entire frame is made of 1/8" thick 2x1 Aluminum C channel. We put better support in there and never had any more problems.
Bumpers will help, yes, but you want gussets too.