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Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Why? Analayze it from an engineering sense and explain the tradeoffs.

Most teams are several orders of magnitude away from being optimized enough for bellypan choice to even matter much anyway.

I posted in a bellypan thread the tradeoffs between several options but am on mobile and can't hunt it down.

We're usually somewhat of a tradition-led team. We recently changed officers, so I'll have to speak with the new officer team about their thoughts on plywood. Compared to the punched 1/8" 5052 we use now, pretty much anything is better.
Garolite makes it look more "professional" compared to plywood, but I feel like we could just paint over it.

I've seen your bellypan threads, and I thought they were very helpful. It's also reassuring to know that your team has tried many different options and optimized.

As long as we don't have a game like this year's and we don't build too big, we're probably okay weight-wise. Both Garolite and plywood are so easy to use that I'm reasonably certain we can swap it out on one robot if the need is dire.