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It's certainly meaningful quantity, and it's certainly worth it. The time saved is huge. I like to think of labor in terms of minimum wage. If the cost of a tool saves enough labor that it's "making" more than minimum wage, it's worth it (as our kids make well above minimum wage when they're out fundraising). The flipside is true too... any fabrication we do that "saves" less than minimum wage is a bad decision, and should be a COTS item. Too many teams work themselves for below minimum wage. |
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Large head rivets work really well for securing tread. Otherwise, just be sure you're putting rivets in the "dip" of the tread as much as you can and use all of them. Going to steel isn't really much help and it just makes changing tread a ton harder. You just need the rivets to last as long as the tread.
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We used a little bit of glue too. Ours were on there pretty tight. Steel rivets helps as opposed to aluminium. We had an all aluminum rivet robot last year and we ended up popping the rivets left and right (especially in high impact/stress areas)(at least the rivets broke and not the frame itself).
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