pic: Meet our kicker

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Thermal

That looks like a steel frame in this picture, how heavy is just your frame alone?

Steel isn't heavy! It's just misunderstood strength to weight is usually better than aluminum, and it's welded properties are tons better than aluminum.

Originally Posted by fordchrist675

This is gonna shock you but just the chassis alone is only 10.4 lbs and with drive parts its 28 lbs. With electronics its 38. Its really quite light. With everything assembled and what not its a few pounds under 120 though.

Nice frame, that's really light and definitely tough.

Love the welded steel kicker too, ours is welded 4130

[fordchrist675]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Steel isn't heavy! It's just misunderstood strength to weight is usually better than aluminum, and it's welded properties are tons better than aluminum.



Nice frame, that's really light and definitely tough.

Love the welded steel kicker too, ours is welded 4130

Hey thanks man. And yeah it really has done well for us the past couple years. Your kicker should hold up rather well. Haha

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by fordchrist675

I read most of the posts on there. Now does our mistake mean we have to make a new one? Or if we flip over are we okay since one is upside down?

I'd have a plan for fixing it. Hopefully your mounting system can be changed/flip-flopped so you don't have to take apart the whole bumper.

[Vikesrock]

Even more than the upside down bumper, which you could just flip over, I would be concerned that your bumpers do not properly protect the corner.

See Figures 8-2 and 8-4 in the Robot section of the manual.

[fordchrist675]

Originally Posted by Thermal

That looks like a steel frame in this picture, how heavy is just your frame alone?

This is gonna shock you but just the chassis alone is only 10.4 lbs and with drive parts its 28 lbs. With electronics its 38. Its really quite light. With everything assembled and what not its a few pounds under 120 though.

[fordchrist675]

Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

It kind of reminds me of your 2007 robot...

Do you have a ball magnet?

I'm a little curious as to what you mean by our 07 bot. Unless your talking about the ramp. Cause we didn't have much else in rack n roll. Other than stout defense and a ramp.

And we have a ball stopper not magnet, but it simply holds it a bit just to make kicking easier.