610's Preseason Drive

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Why use threaded rod across the entire width of the robot instead of nuts and bolts?

That's what's holding the two sides of the robot together. They aren't using any gussets or other brackets that attach to both the cross-tubing and the wheel tubes*. If they used nut & bolt at each end, the cross tubing would slide right off of the milled piece linked from post #3.

Edit:
* except the belly pan.

[notmattlythgoe]

I like it. If you went to 3" box would there be enough room to move the chains inside the tube also? Or even using the .875" colsons?