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[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Chowmaster4695

Just wondering, was there a reason your team chose to use plates and standoffs, as opposed to a more traditional approach using tubing? It seems like using plates and standoffs is more difficult to manufacture, potentially heavier, and significantly weaker. Just my .02$. Chow out.

Plate, at least with 125's resources, is far easier to work with. We can do tube but it's 4 ops to lighten that as opposed to the 3/16" plate we used in our DT where we machine plates for both sides of the bot at the same time. (video) Our drive frame hasn't had any problems through nearly 20 matches at Groton (lots of replays) Nor has our intake which was built using a similar technique.

Can't speak for OP though.