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View Poll Results: What do you use for chassis material?
wood 11 5.07%
steel angle 8 3.69%
aluminum angle 36 16.59%
steel tubing (round or rectangular) 2 0.92%
aluminum tubing (round or rectangular) 58 26.73%
Bosch extrusion or similar (aluminum or steel) 89 41.01%
Other 13 5.99%
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Chassis Material/Construction

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I am interested in what all the teams use to make their chassis. We have always used Bosch extrusion and will be using it again next season. What do you use and what are the pros and cons of different materials?
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All steel for us. We had a welded steel frame this year and it worked very well for us. It weighted a ton, and probably limited our design, but it was strong, cheap, and easy to work with. We have used aluminum channel and tubing before (2001 and our off-season OCCRA competition), but we like steel better, and we can get it fast and cheap locally.
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/me <3 extruded aluminum

very useful when you design and build the chassis, then realize it sucks, and redesign it and rebuild it, then realize it sucks...
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We don't use any of that we, use 1/4 Aluminium plating with alot of holes in it. Makes for a very rugged robot.
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Hmm...I think we use 1"x1.5" aluminum rectangular tubing. Not too sure on the dimensions. It's sturdy. Uhh...and it's sturdy.
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Extrusion

The past couple years all we've used is different assortments of extrusion....This year we used more "aluminium tubing"(still extrusion?) because of weight.



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We used 1/4" aluminum plate with 1/4" aluminum angle underneath for sturdiness. We also have a 1/4" aluminum angle V-cut in the front of our robot for handling goals. It's sad though - it's way too strong. Our engineer used it as a trampoline after he made it until his ankles hurt, but now we've cut too many holes in it for it to be used that way again.

Next year, bring on the extrusion and tubing! Let's go for a frame, not a plate, woo!
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Hmm...I think we use 1"x1.5" aluminum rectangular tubing. Not too sure on the dimensions. It's sturdy. Uhh...and it's sturdy.

Sounds about right, or at least something close. Don't forget our steel anti-bumpers. Moe found out about them to well this year, there are still traces of them finding out about our anti-bumpers. Ohh yeah... it's sturdy!
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We've used aluminum angle , extrusion, and angle iron.
We stoped using the aluminum angle because our welding teacher retired and we have no idea how to mig or tig weld(tried it once the results were not pretty) so we switched to angle iron which was much easier to weld, but weighed a ton. This year we used 80/20 extrusion which was nice and modular but was heavy also.
So out of my expieriance the best framing material is some sort of aluminum structural material like box or angle that you weld together because you just can't get a stronger lighter frame that actually allows you to put other mechanisms for the other part of the game on the robot.
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This past year, we used 30mm x 30mm Boasch aluminum extrusion. It's sturdy, it connects well and we get a discount on it!

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We always go by are moto ( Wood is good , Steal is real , and plastics fantastic ) just to share a little humor with you guy !
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We used Bosch, because the team welder graduated last year.

It's great stuff to use, you can build a bot in no time, and disassemble it easily... but it adds unneeded weight. You could probabaly use 2 bars of aluminum tube for every 1 Bosch, and still have it weigh less and be just as strong.

But, hey, it worked great for us, so I'm not complaining.


Heh, it'd be sweet if someone built their bot outta polycarb. That'd be rather fragile tho. Just get some nice 3/4" thick polycarb
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The bosch aluminum extrusions are not much heavier than the same size square tube with an average wall thickness. The extrusions are great for changing design, quickly adding mechanisms, and moving pieces without drilling. It's a snap to build and makes the whole project more modular. It is incredibly strong too. Also, its only a couple of bucks more than sq. tube.

The only downside is the cost of hardware. Those little brass alloy T-nuts are like 50 cents apiece. There's also the wierd metric hardware that's a little more money and harder to get then American hardware. The joiner plates are just a rip off so we make our own.

For those of you who voted wood, can we see some pics?
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Heh, it'd be sweet if someone built their bot outta polycarb. That'd be rather fragile tho. Just get some nice 3/4" thick polycarb
Somebody did. In 2001 (I think Adam knows this story better than I) they only used Lexan as a building material. They made 1/4" lexan angle, lexan sidepanels, and everything like that. No structural steel or aluminum at all.

It was pretty cool looking

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Forgot to mention who it was! It was team 401. We were next to them in the pits at VCU, so I remember them lifting up lexan parts of their robot I could see through while we worked.
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Somebody did. In 2001 (I think Adam knows this story better than I) they only used Lexan as a building material. They made 1/4" lexan angle, lexan sidepanels, and everything like that. No structural steel or aluminum at all.

It was pretty cool looking
Yeah, but in 2001, you could get away with that. The structural concerns were not as great when you knew you weren't going to be in contact with opposing bots.
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