Thread: Gluing Robot Frames
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Unread 02-01-2010, 08:57
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Re: Gluing Robot Frames
This is a very intriguing idea, never seen this before. But, I have a question about it...

In an emergency situation, how do you take these glued joints apart? If its welded conventionally, you just take out the grinder and its done. The epoxy seems a little more permanent seeing as they're saying the aluminum fails before the epoxy.

For this reason, 810 has never welded anything due to the fear of having to change out a damaged frame piece or make a last minute design change, which has happaned to us before.
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