FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive

[MichaelBick]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Can't speak for how 1678 achieved theirs, but on 3467 we had five individual pieces of plywood with the three side pieces held together by a patiently cut down/sanded 2x4 since we didn't have access to sheet metal. It was as unpleasant as it sounded and very weak. IIRC a versa gusset or two was thrown in at some point after the plywood started to crack.

The best way I have seen so far is making a seperate, hexagonal, gusseted bumper frame out of 1x1 tubing. If you have the ability to make gussets it is just like making any other mechanism frame out of versaframe.