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====== No-Weld Car ======

===== Description =====

  * Welding is awesome, but many schools, groups, etc. do not have the capabilities due to lack of equipment and/or lack of instructors. We should develop ideas for a PPPRS vehicle that requires no welding. This page will collect ideas around how to build a no-weld car.

===== Notes =====

  * Some people have thrown around ideas of using wood, or Aluminum extrusion, or Unistrut, or Aluminum bolted together with plates. All of these are valid, and just need to be fleshed out and designed/built.

  * Whatever is designed/built, there should be a list of required tools. For instance, using metal may be fine, because a simple hand too (a hacksaw) can be used to cut metal, as long as it doesn't need to be super-precise. Thing about how you could build things without CNC machines, or even without power tools. Some parts, like spindles, can always be purchased rather than made. Think about the problems you're trying to solve and where to direct your efforts.

  * In designing/building a vehicle, think about what a team of kids working in a garage, or a school without much of a shop could do. Scale things appropriately, and more of all, document it all!

===== Comments =====

  * Eric K: Sandcrawler / Minecart from Omaha Maker Group. It's a wood frame with a wood/foam composite panel body. Virtually no welding (the steering column support might be, IIRC). - 2016-11-23
  * Patrick C: PS1 will be retiring the blues mobile. It's replacement will be of a wood frame/no weld type. - 2016-11-23
  * Jackie G: I'll be working with my students to see how user-friendly we can get aluminum tubes with gusset plates. My goal is to make it viable with nothing more than a jigsaw and a handheld drill. - 2016-11-23
  * Pole Guy: I have a fusion 360 3D design with 2D drawings for my car. [[https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fsc%2Fh2vga610ib66uo5%2FAAC_PNrmXuaHFUwsu10ZpQkha&h=sAQFMfRQV|Here are the raw photos]]. No weld angle Aluminum... works well. Simple tools for most of it.


===== Photos =====

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