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Re: How Do You Make Your Robot?
95 has used plywood frames with angle aluminum brackets frequently, and with great success. Recently we've started welded the kit chassis together which makes it both lighter and stiffer than using the bolted connections. Every year we've used the kit frame we've always dropped a sheet of something in the middle of the kit frame to strengthen it up.
If you have easy access to welding, a welded frame could work out very well for you because it is such a flexible fabrication technique. Be careful with welded aluminum frames because if you weld 6061 it loses its temper, 50xx series (that the kit frame is made out of) has no temper and so does not lose strength with welding.
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