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i was just wondering, do teams get bored of just using Hardox as armour?
the reason is I know Hardox might be easy to get due to buying them scrapyards, being sold by other team or other companies but surely just for non-spinner event robot be built in thick 5mm or 6mm aluminium, steel or titanium armour. They don't have to be really thick 8-10mm armoured, like if you would if you were going to fight spinner but just enough to withstand axes & crushers.
Hardox does the job for an acceptable pricetag.
Nothing boring to that.
Most teams would gladly change to titanium , but the pricetag and the issues working with it ain't acceptable, unless deep pockets and a lot of metalworking experience.
And of course. There still is HDPE. Cheap, light, tough as old boots and easy to work with.
Has anyone in the community actually ever got Hardox from a scrapyard?
You do realise Hardox is just Steel? - hence its alot easier to weld and cheaper to make than Ti or Ali would be.....
Even 10MM aluminium is not strong enough for modern it just twists and bends under the high loads
Hardox is just a special type of steel. 10mm of Aluminium just isn't strong enough these days.
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Fluffy, above, has 12mm 6061 Alu bulkheads... by the time MMM had finished, nothing was straight.
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Cant remember the robots name but this is 8mm 7075 Alu... ouch :-P
Regular mild steel is no good either, just bends. Titanium is very expensive unless you get lucky so is used in key places if people can afford it.
HDPE is so cheap comparatively and no where near as dense so you can have far more of it for protection. Its not unbreakable by any means but Hardox is just the best all round compromise right now, so that's why everyone uses it.
Aren't people getting bored with Hardox................ Wouldn't know never used it :)