02-07-2010 09:23 PM

Starke340

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

It looks like two frames sitting upside down and on top of each other to me

02-07-2010 09:38 PM

keehun

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

Yeah. Where are you mounting your bumpers?

02-07-2010 11:17 PM

1747robotics

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

Please tell me that chassis will eventually make like Wisconsinites and get cheesed...

(PS- I am from Wisconsin, so it's ok for me to make that statement! )

02-07-2010 11:34 PM

Chris is me

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

My team has a very similar chassis that only weighs 30ish pounds. They have lightening on the inside of the AL rails though.

02-08-2010 10:24 AM

Kettering

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

I want to know how you got the tread blue! That's awesome! We'd love some green tread on our bot.

02-08-2010 10:26 AM

squirrel

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

I think that is the Nitrile Rough Top tread that McMaster-Carr sells. It comes blue, not green, though.

02-08-2010 10:27 AM

IndySam

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

McMaster page 1237

02-08-2010 10:32 AM

Alan Anderson

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

Search the forums for "nitrile". McMaster-Carr sells the blue nitrile roughtop conveyor belting often used for traction wheel treads.

I believe they also have green PVC roughtop. I don't know anything about its potential performance on an FRC robot, though.

02-08-2010 12:01 PM

1075guy

Re: pic: 294 Teaser #1

You may wish to be careful with this design. You must put BUMPERS on, and the Q&A has implied that invertible ROBOTs, that intend to continue playing while inverted, must have their BUMPERS in the BUMPER ZONE even when inverted. This means, barring some crazy design I can't fully wrap my head around at the moment, your robot must be ~26" tall, and therefore unable to traverse the TUNNELs.