13-02-2010 10:39

MrForbes

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My guess is that you'll have 5499 rivets in your robot this year.

13-02-2010 15:29

Techgirl675

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Oh goodness...that is far too many rivets.

13-02-2010 15:40

lenny8

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i think for 1501 its not enough rivets. nine more boxes then maybe

13-02-2010 20:04

gblake

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Ok, so you are going to use a robot to hold all of those rivets together? That sounds overly complicated. Just empty them into a single bigger box.

13-02-2010 20:10

gblake

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Once you melt all that raw metal down and cast it into robot parts, how will you connect the cast pieces together?

13-02-2010 20:13

DonRotolo

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...and I was expecting frogs.

Just beware those Harbor Freight rivets for high-strength applications; their quality is somewhat less than the name brands. (But for 90% of what we do with them, they are just fine. We just don't use so many....)

13-02-2010 20:32

Jason Law

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Glad to see we're not the only ones using Harbor Freight rivets...

13-02-2010 21:01

Wayne Doenges

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We have never had a rivet failed. Even when a team hit us at full speed three times (before bumpers). No rivet sheared or broke.

16-02-2010 16:31

Zanfardino2892

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lol. I have to say. Rivets stand alone above duct tape and zip ties for a lot of purposes

16-02-2010 19:18

FIRSTgirl675

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Wow...that many rivets reminds me of my team's 2007 robot. I heard we went through over a thousand rivets between 3 competitions.

16-02-2010 22:38

DanaRocks

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rivets are lighter then bolts

16-02-2010 23:33

CrashTestPilot

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So what is the weight of one of those boxes?
I went to HB but did not find any details on the weight. So there is 500 in one box?

17-02-2010 14:41

Cynette

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And all those rivets sure make the robot look pretty!

17-02-2010 14:46

efoote868

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That's all one robot, or does it include the prototyping / mistakes?
Wouldn't surprise me either way.

17-02-2010 14:57

MrForbes

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and how much of that weight is the mandrels?

18-02-2010 09:38

Wayne Doenges

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We are planning on building a robot to hold all the rivets together

18-02-2010 09:43

Dancin103

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hahaha those were the days. you had to build a tank basically.

18-02-2010 10:52

Racer26

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Bah, hardly... I competed in 2003 and 2004 with chassis made from 80/20-esque aluminum extrusion, and 1" square aluminum tube. No problems... well, we bent the 2004 chassis after a particularly hard head-on autonomous collision, and had to cut a piece out to free up the wheels again.

18-02-2010 14:20

Wayne Doenges

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Our 2005 machine was totally Monocoque. Which means we had NO internal structure, just bent aluminum. We took three full court, full speed hits. It bent the aluminum a little, between bulkheads, but did no appreciable damage to bot. Monocoques is STRONG.