quick question to all about why using KOP metal.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by CuriousGeorge

we broke one robot at the joints (this i know was bolts and such)

and one robot snapped at the front KOP bar trying to run into us as we ran into them

also made one robots side KOP bar bend severly from the side

This thread seems to be going in cirlces. CuriousGeorge doesn't seem to me that he will be convinced that the KOP frame is a great frame, when biult and reinforced properly.

We have been using it for 3 years now and have not had any issues, when it was biult properly. We chopped it up a little for Aim High and had some bowing issues. Last year no problems and we were beat on pretty heavy last year, and I foresee no problems this year.

We have the facilities and resources to make whatever we want and we have used welded frames and bolted frames and we prefer the bolted. One big reason, if a weld breaks at competition and there are no welding facilities, your robot may not operate the same. I've seen that happen to welded frames at competition and the robot was never the same again.

I think it is time to agree to disagree.