[Shira]

Last year my team (no. 1836) built our very first non-kit of parts chassis out of welded aluminum. This turned out to be great from a structural sense, but terrible from a time management sense as it took us two weeks to get it back from our welder (I believe it was a parent from another local team that we no longer have a connection with).

We have no professional mentors (I'm a mentor and we are all undergraduate college students) and no professional technical help at all in fact.

Sooo....our supervising teacher is trying to have us find alternatives. If there are any that will give us as strong and precise a robot frame, that would be awesome...especially if they are cost effective. But I've got a sneaking suspicion (judging by how nice our frame was last year) that nothing is going to serve our purposes as well as welding.