pic: Rastogi 8wd Iteration 1.2

[sgreco]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Second, you might consider putting flanges on some of those inside cutouts. Yes, it ends up a little heavier, but because the outer flange is not continuous you will suffer from low rigidity (and low resistance to bending) at certain points; use flanges to compensate.

I'm sort of in the process of leanring about the techniques of sheetmetal fabrication so I don't really know, but right now this is a fairly straightforward part to make, especially if you have a laser cutter. What I don't know is will adding those inner flanges add significantly to the fabrication time? I would imagine if in fact more strength was needed it would be easier and more robust to just add more cross supports between the inner and outer plate.