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Originally Posted by M.Wong
Sorry I should have elaborated. My team uses 1/16" thick 1"x1" aluminum tubing in most of our applications (we haven't quite reached a point where we use sheet metal). Our style of robot building works well with bolts, and I don't really see us changing (unless we start using sheet metal more extensively).
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We didn't use rivets much this year, but that was almost our entire hardware for Lunacy. Our robot that year was pretty much just 1/8" and 1/16" stock metals (angle, tube, etc.) and they work really well. Replacing them (which we rarely had to do) was pretty quick and easy.