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Re: pic: Broken Bumper from 2007

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Originally Posted by RyanS View Post
It was 3/4 in plywood. Just the fact that the attachment points were really far apart and it was cheap plywood was the problem.
In 2007 we had a bumper supported only on the ends of it's 35" length and it was broken. It was replace by furniture grade plywood and that was broken. That was replaced again and aluminum angle was added and and it too was broken.

140lb robots can break almost anything.
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