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Re: Newly Developed Chassis

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler View Post
When we built the FRC robot "Wooden Thunder" four years ago, we created side bumpers out simple 2x4 Douglas fir boards planed down to 1.25" thick. We took some terrific bashes from other robots, including one that gouged out a chunk of wood an inch long and a half-inch deep, without any damage that would have actually hurt the robot.
Very interesting observation. Thanks for sharing. What you have described confirms what we learned this year.

After bending up a 1/8 " sheet of aluminum that was the front of our robot and then bending up a 2x4" piece of aluminum angle that we added in addition to the other 1/8th inch piece, we ended up putting a 1" by 4" by the width of our robot piece of wood up front also. That piece of wood seemed to take the shock of collision very nicely. If they ever make bumpers optional again, we are putting a 1" thick piece of lumber around our entire robot just to absorb the shock.
 


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