pic: Can't tell if giant bumpers or little robots...

[Brandon_L]

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[Akash Rastogi]

Link to front view, for lazy people http://i.imgur.com/oS2sekx.jpg

[DampRobot]

I really like those gussets! Did you have them water jetted or milled? By the way, you can save a lot of weight up high by changing those bolts to rivets. Changing from bolts to rivets last year saved us upwards of five pounds over the entire robot. And, with a pneumatic rivet gun, rivets are fun to install.

[jblay]

was totally not going to go to that link until you posted that akash and this isn't sarcasm.

[jsasaki]

lol same^

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by jblay

was totally not going to go to that link until you posted that akash and this isn't sarcasm.

Haha, I know how the mind of a fellow lazy person works.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

I really like those gussets! Did you have them water jetted or milled? By the way, you can save a lot of weight up high by changing those bolts to rivets. Changing from bolts to rivets last year saved us upwards of five pounds over the entire robot. And, with a pneumatic rivet gun, rivets are fun to install.

They are milled out by a great local sponsor.

[Bill_B]

Since, Akash is on the job, I'm sure there's no worry. I just couldn't find the main breaker in either front or rear shot. I hope it's more evident IRL.

Care to share any more detail about how the reversible covers work? The two-sided part is easy. It's those ends that look impossible.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

Since, Akash is on the job, I'm sure there's no worry. I just couldn't find the main breaker in either front or rear shot. I hope it's more evident IRL.

Care to share any more detail about how the reversible covers work? The two-sided part is easy. It's those ends that look impossible.

The main breaker isn't permanently mounted yet, its just floating around in the guts. It'll be fixed.

As for the bumpers - I did not work on them myself, it was a small group of kids and a parent. I'll ask about the exact method used.

[Calvin Hartley]

[quote=DampRobot;1232572...you can save a lot of weight up high by changing those bolts to rivets. Changing from bolts to rivets last year saved us upwards of five pounds over the entire robot. And, with a pneumatic rivet gun, rivets are fun to install.[/QUOTE]

I second this. Rivets are lighter, and we too have a pneumatic riveter. Much nicer.

[PayneTrain]

EDIT: Wrong thread, delete please.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by Calvin Hartley

I second this. Rivets are lighter, and we too have a pneumatic riveter. Much nicer.

Since I'm getting 400 of these comments, I'll just address this here

We don't have a pneumatic riveter and are quite low-budget. Our awesome machining sponsor also supplies materials. Yes rivets would be so much lighter, but where we are right now we may even have to weigh the drivetrain down. So it wasn't really a design issue. We had the nuts and bolts on hand so we used them.

tl;dr totally agree, but there was no need and we had bolts already.

[Twins Inc.]

What C-Channel is that? The holes are different than the KOP stuff, (I think) and how did you get it colored? It looks way better than just plain aluminum.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Twins Inc.

What C-Channel is that? The holes are different than the KOP stuff, (I think) and how did you get it colored? It looks way better than just plain aluminum.

Looks like normal c-channel (spray?) painted orange.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by Twins Inc.

What C-Channel is that? The holes are different than the KOP stuff, (I think) and how did you get it colored? It looks way better than just plain aluminum.

Regular kit channel, sprayed with a matte white first then gloss orange.