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Re: 1/8th thick aluminum

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
There are plenty of competitive and successful robots that use wood. Some more notable examples include 1114 (for reinforcement), 1726 (see their 2009 chassis), and 1771 (2009-2010 robots)
Don't get me wrong. Even though wood isn't the best, there isn't anything particularly wrong with wood as a structural material, but our team has always fallen back to wood as a last resort. So wood is a bit taboo. Wood doesn't have a very good strength to weight ratio anyway. There are reasons we use metal and composites over wood dope and fabric in aircraft structures nowadays.
 


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