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Low Rider Club 2014
On this year's robot, we had roughly 1/16" ground clearance.
Our ground clearance started just below 1/8", where the bottom of our lexan bellypan was. There were originally pan head bolts and rivets below the bellypan, but as the robot wore in (ie: was pounded in) we began to completely ruin the whole field of tape at Dallas (2 times) as our tubing frame slightly shifted. We moved all of the bolts and busted out the Dremel to ground down some bolt "tails" so the lowest point of the robot was the bellypan itself, which had sunk down to 1/16".
After 2 regionals, we have huge scratch marks (like sandpaper) all along our plastic bellypan where we were still slightly sliding around.
Ground clearance is defined in this club as the height of your bellypan (or similar large, horizontal plate) off of the ground. How low are you?
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