Top 5 mistakes
 

So I know you have made mistakes, let hear em!

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1. Ran out of duct tape!
2. Couldn't find large enough hammer.
3. Tried to force it. Broke it. Hid it. Someone found it!
4. Ran out of Mt. Dew (official food group of team 1163)
5. IR sensors read LED on clock in shop. Cannot find beacon!

:D

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1. Cut something too short
2. Cut a hole 1/16" off
3. Try to organize things into seperate boxes and just end up losing things
4. Inuring yourself to the point where blood is drawn (it's happened way too much this season!)
5. Letting people buy things we don't need

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Becoming a college mentor my freshman year.

'nuff said.

-Andy A.

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someone clamped sprocket in vice bent teeth
bored a hole and not centered forgot to use a center punch
saw nice color metal coming off the peice i was working on off the mill thought it was nice picked it up (when metal changes color it means its hot ;) )
1. WHEN USING A TAP MAKE SHURE ITS LINED STRAIGHT UP (that is always my biggest mistake)

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Oh! I forgot a really big one!!

*Accidently setting a steel coil on top of an old battery and almost setting the place on fire

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Wow your accident prone.

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1. While vaccuming acrylic dust from the pipes we used, feeling the charge on my clothes, but not realizing if I got close to a machine it would discharge... That hurt like hell.

2. Rookie year trying to knock a sprocket off of a wheel, thinking I had taken off the bolts on the other side... when I hadn't.

3. Thinking I was Bruce Lee and accidently kicking out a florscent light.

4. At Nationals in Disney, trying to climb to the second floor of our hotel on the painted side grating, not making it, and falling... Also hurt like hell.

5. Not FIRST related, but in machine shop class noticing there was some material stuck on the RUNNING endmill then trying to take it off... Luckly I had gloves on, long story short, the glove got caught in the end mill and I had to quickly shut it off. Didn't hit me till later how close I was to losing my finger/hand.

-Aaron

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yeah i no...lol...at least i get stuff done...but screwing up a few times in the process :(

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our biggest mistake was when we first made the pole to hang on. the sponsor lights hang about 10 feet from teh ground so placin the platform in the upright position it knocked down the whole florscent light fixture breaking both bulbs on us now that hurt

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not going to the meeting on time and ending up gettin hit by a car!! :rolleyes: lol.

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ooooh boy, where do I begin... from what I've observed, most recent error was spending an hour wiring something up on the arm, only to find out it was done wrong, spent another 40 or so min un-wiring it, then another hour to wire it correctly :)