145 + Glue =awesome?

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Originally Posted by jgannon

Congratulations on finding a successful fusion of students and engineers that works for your team. It sounds like your team understands the purpose of FIRST far better than teams whose students never touch the robot, or than teams who try to attack this problem with no engineer support at all. Best of luck with the rest of your season.

Thank you very much, that means a lot from someone that is from a team that is in an area with a much larger population then little old Norwich, NY

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

Surprisingly, welding may not be that much stronger than epoxy (if stronger at all). Welding ruins the heat-treatment on the aluminum, which makes its strength take a nosedive. On the other hand, some epoxies are insanely strong and do not affect the heat treatment.

That is very true, when I weld alum. tubing I cause put 2 tubes welded into a "T", let it cool, put it into a vice and rip the alum all around the weld before breaking the weld. It's because the areas around the welds became heat treated and became weaker.

Originally Posted by colin340

good point but weld can't shatter they can bend

-colin

I haven't seen any of my welds on a robot "shatter", but every year i have one cracked or fully broken weld (often my crappy welds). What is nice about epoxy is that it has some stretch to it.