pic: Team 1511 Prototype Drivebase Mk. II

[Vespasian]

Originally Posted by Electronica1

What thickness sheet metal are you using? Also, do you need the outer wheels to be live axle, or would dead axle work?

Most of the sheet metal is 1/8" with the exception of the cylinder mounting brackets and the bracket between the inner flanged sheets and the front/back 1x2" tubing (.090"). The outer wheels could be dead axle, we actually did so for the earlier version of this design (which we built: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...readid=131485).

I'm thinking keeping the axle type consistent would be preferable for machining purposes, but that does mean a bit more mass is being directly driven by the transmissions.