Aluminum chain?

Max Lobovsky · #1 24-02-2004, 14:43

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Originally Posted by bstempi

2) Replace all of your steel rods with aluminum rods. Doing this will reduce the wieght of all of the rods by 33%.

I believe it would reduce your weight to 33% of what it was with steel beams, not reduce by 33%.

Cory · #2 24-02-2004, 15:52

I would not reccomend mounting any wheels or anything you expect to put a lot of torque/force on with aluminum shafts. A person can bend a 3/8" aluminum shaft by hand, just think of what a robot moving at 10 fps will do to it!

Cory

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