pic: VR-001: A Jersey Voltage Simple Hex Frame

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Originally Posted by Oblarg

Do you have enough space to pull those wheels without removing the outer hex frame if you need to do maintenance?

I'm not quite so sure I'd be comfortable with that little substance behind the bumpers on the side. I've seen some crazy deformations of fairly significant framing members through an FRC bumper (I've got a piece of last year's AM14U chassis sitting right next to me that fits the bill). The frame rules are there for a reason - if you take a hefty impact at the least-supported part of your bumper, are you certain it won't fail?

Cool solution for getting the motors out of the way. You lose the benefit of a direct-driven center wheel in the case of chain/belt failure, but that's probably a worthy tradeoff.

There is plenty of room in a sense to where in order to get the wheel off all you would need to do is remove the axle? And I can easily add some more support where I think its needed and repost a picture. Just give me a bit. The only purpose of that out framing member, yet again is for the bumper rules and to give the bot a Hex shape. 118 ran a setup similar to this in a sense to where they had zero "frame" touching their bumpers and they were fine. I am not too worried here and if it becomes a problem it is just as easy to replace them with some thicker alum or some steel.