Easy Bumper Switching?

[Travis Schuh]

Originally Posted by runneals

We use some button latches. They are super nice to just drop the bumpers on and clip the latches into place. Also
check out these photos of us making bumpers with one of our super amazing alumni mentors that came to Iowa from Chicago to help us make them (We used to have a page on bumper stuff, but apparently it got taken down). Let me know if you have any questions and I can get them answered.

We used these latches last year for our first time and had problems with them latching by the end of the season. The bumper had shifted size a little, so it was hard to get the latches over the latching pegs. Also, the little metal pieces got bent and so they didn't stay latched well. Part of what contributed to that was if you put the bumper down on accident with the latches in the closed position, it would bend the metal.

They worked great for the first 2 competitions, it wasn't until the tail of the off-season that we could no longer get the bumpers on or off. Have you seen any of these issues with these latches? Perhaps you were using them in a way that was better for the latches.