Chassis Material/Construction

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Chassis Material/Construction

View Poll Results: What do you use for chassis material?
wood	11	5.07%
steel angle	8	3.69%
aluminum angle	36	16.59%
steel tubing (round or rectangular)	2	0.92%
aluminum tubing (round or rectangular)	58	26.73%
Bosch extrusion or similar (aluminum or steel)	89	41.01%
Other	13	5.99%
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12-08-2002, 16:05

Matt Reiland Matt Reiland is offline

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We noticed some NASA teams that pre-made connectors (like tinker toy ends) that hold tubing at different angles in the off season. THe keys here is build your 'proto-type' out of BOSCH then make the final out of tube by quickly rebuilding straight tube sections fitted into the pre-made connectors and giving it a little weld, which is much faster than making the custom ends on each piece when time is an issue. We will probably do this for 2003.

Bosch is great stuff, it just weighs alot, we did find we could 'remove' some excess material from sides we weren't attaching to for weight savings and it still was pretty strong stuff.
30x30mm

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