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[Stu Bloom]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Look at all the triangles! That thing is structurally sound. How much does it weigh?

Yes it is quite sturdy. We should be able to stand up to all the pounding pretty well this year. The weight of the welded chassis as shown is about 26.5 pounds - That will certainly force us to minimize weight up top, helping us to keep our CG low for ramp-climbing.

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

The real question Stu is who is going to break all those edges ...i hope you have some committed students on your team or a good angle grinder

Yup Greg, We do have a couple of students who have become 'best friends' with our de-burring tools

Originally Posted by Starke340

great looking design. why is one of the triangle support pieces (on the front or the back?) rounded when one is still pointed? looks like a good robot in the making to me.

Originally Posted by Erics626

We ran out of material, and had to cut it a bit short!

Well ... sort of, Eric. While optimizing the cutting layout of all the pieces we needed to cut, that corner fell off the edge. The last inch or two of that point is non-functional anyway ... unless we were planning to "spear" the balls