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Re: pic: Meet our kicker

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Originally Posted by Thermal View Post
That looks like a steel frame in this picture, how heavy is just your frame alone?
Steel isn't heavy! It's just misunderstood strength to weight is usually better than aluminum, and it's welded properties are tons better than aluminum.

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Originally Posted by fordchrist675 View Post
This is gonna shock you but just the chassis alone is only 10.4 lbs and with drive parts its 28 lbs. With electronics its 38. Its really quite light. With everything assembled and what not its a few pounds under 120 though.
Nice frame, that's really light and definitely tough.

Love the welded steel kicker too, ours is welded 4130
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