pic: Team 2791 Coming Together

[Chris is me]

Thanks!

The aluminum plates are 3/16".

We went with 6 inch wheels and scalloping just for extra security with bump clearance. Some people on the team wanted to use the 2008 KoP wheels due to budgeting concerns, so using 6 inch wheels would have been cheapest too. Now that we're using 6 Plactions, it's not cheapest, but it still works. I'm guessing based on the question you guys are using smaller wheels?

[sdcantrell56]

Yup we are actually going with 4.5" wheels with the scalloped chassis as well. We went the custom route though on wheels so the cost wasnt a problem.

Did you think about direct driving one of the wheels instead of chaining all of them as well?

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56

Yup we are actually going with 4.5" wheels with the scalloped chassis as well. We went the custom route though on wheels so the cost wasnt a problem.

Did you think about direct driving one of the wheels instead of chaining all of them as well?

Thought about it, but the 8 wheels would make the gearboxes off center, making CoG a little harder to balance. Plus we're using dead axles (east coast drive).

[sdcantrell56]

Haha I love the east coast drive reference. We're doing dead axles too and wood frame again....Maybe that would be the down south drive.

[GaryVoshol]

Make sure that the kicker is well-filed so it doesn't harm the balls.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Make sure that the kicker is well-filed so it doesn't harm the balls.

Thanks. Right now the angle piece has a very rounded edge, though the corners will be filed a bit more. I think we'll be playing with various slopes and wedges on it in the (dramatically shortened) tweaking part of our build.

[Akash Rastogi]

Chris I finally realized which aspects of old MORT bots this looks like

[rsisk]

Chris,

What are the holes on the front of the kicker arms for?

[Chris is me]

I think the holes are left over from drilling at a slightly lower / crooked spot. Not exactly elegant, but it kinda sorta looks like weight reduction to me! Though now we're down to one mast instead of 2.