Design Ideas

Doug G · #8 06-11-2005, 21:48

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Originally Posted by Bcahn836

This year team 836 used a 3/8" thick aluminum plate, and boxed aluminum for the chassis and frame.

3/8" Al Plate!! That would weigh almost 20 lbs by itself. That's seems a bit overkill, are you sure you don't mean 3/16"?

Last we used a real simple low design for the chassis out of 3/4" x 1.5" rectangular Alumin tubing in the front and back, and then 3/4" x 1.75" C channel Alumin down the lengths to support the wheels. We welded it all up and used 6 wheel design with the kit transmissions linked up with #35 chain. We used nylon sprockets attached to our wheels which was simple since our custom 6" wheels had no hub.

I attached a few simple pics.

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