We had a drill press destroyed, but it wasn't destroyed by the crate movers; it was destroyed by our principal and assistant principal. When we were moving to our new building, they decided to "help out" in moving some things. The two of them tried to carry our drill press, and dropped it. It fell end-over-end, and the motor part hit the ground. It hasn't worked since.

Anyways, more on topic, we have our robot back, too. It came in the middle of last week, I think. There was no damage to it or the crate. We have a giant "Fork Here" written on the side, so it's pretty hard to mess up with our crate. We did this because a few years ago, some handlers forked it wrong, and broke all the casters. Now, there's no doubt about how to fork our crate.

We got Ed back sometime Monday.
Because our school has no loading dock, it gets droped off at teh Fairfax County Government Center. So after school, a few go down, load it into Mr. Fletcher's truck, and bring it back.



Wetzel

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Now we have a robot again.
mwhahahahahaha..
:D

I'm wondering how many people had
"Some Settling during Shipping" ??

We arrived at the comeptition to find that our robot had been "tweaked" by the shippers.

http://www.tj2.org/2002/imagepages/p4250187.html

If you've seen our robot, you know that piece is supposed to be a triangle on the top of the robot.

http://www.tj2.org/2002/imagepages/p4270281.html

The best we can theroize it, the flipped the crate, and dropped it, so that all 130 pounds of the bot came crashing down onto itself.

Hard. Very Hard.

Thank god we had a spare of the piece. Our only casutily of the Nationals was shipper induced.


We had a pretty unique case. We "borrowed" one of the international shipping containers our sponser company uses. It's waterproof, and padded. We just strapped it to a pallet and we had an instant waterproof, FIRST approved shipping crate.

time is ticking away
 

Here at team 25 we are getting really concerned because our machine has not shown up yet and we have the Pa. Robotics Challenge on Saturday. I don't know what to do if it doesn't appear except use onew of our old robots designed for a different game.

The horror stories I hear from some of you are giving me even worse ideas....


AAAArrrrgggghhhhh!

WC

Our crate got back yesterday. It is sitting in the hallway next to our so called robotics room. (My closet is bigger) I don't even think most of the team knows its back yet!?!?!?! Anyways, it will be fun to play with it and show the school what we can do.