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The students are back from getting the bearings!

By the way, if you can guess where I got the quote in my above post (and you are not on 3132) I will extremely impressed. :]

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I know what it is! ;)

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Yes you do, and I am impressed. Does anybody else know?

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We got up at 4am and caught the earliest train... got to the place and bought 6 bearings then came back....

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And we were very proud of the two of you.

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I really like the sound of "Imperial parts from AndyMark". Images of working on the Death-Star and A.B. in a Vader costume come to mind...:rolleyes:

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I may be biased as one of the teams mentors, but I think a driving base in 15 days from a rookie team is a really great achievement.

And it worked on the first integration test.

AND we have to chase kangaroos and wombats out of the shed just to get to our tools! Crikey! (Ok, not really...)

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As an unbiased member of the FIRST community, I think that it's quite an achievement (you're farther along than we are...but we're trying for a different drivetrain that we haven't done before).

Can we have some of your kangaroos? Pleaseeee? If you gave them away at competitions instead of pins, I'd totally come out to BAE...

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I'd agree with Kara. You guys are going really well for a rookie team. Our team is on our third drivebase, but this is the farthest along our team has been in a while as we made getting drivebases moving over the bumps as a high priority so we could test them.

Congratulations guys, keep it up!

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Thanks Kara and Brendan! We have been trying really hard to keep pace with the veteran USA teams despite the fact that orders from AndyMark order take so long to get... :rolleyes:

Today we are supposed to be "taking the day off" since it is Australia Day, but you can all see how well that is going! We may not be at the university but a few of us are still on CD.

Finally, as for the kangaroos, well lets just say koalas are not as big, and easier to fit in our sutcases...:]

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Good on 'ya, mates. Seeing "life" in the machine for the first time is really cool, and I could see it on the student's faces that this is something they'll remember for a while to come.

I hadn't really thought about the fact that in most of the world, the imperial sized parts would be the difficult ones to find. Here in Canada we've been officially metric since the seventies, but since our dear friends and #1 trading partners just to the south of us haven't got on board, it is still easier to find imperial parts on the shelves.


Jason

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I'm glad that us Americans are good for something. :D ;)

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Kangaroos are dangerous... Koalas are dangerous... in fact everything here is out to kill you ;)

Did you know that there is a tree here called "The Stinging Tree" (Dendrocnide moroides) and "It is best known for stinging hairs which cover the whole plant and deliver a potent toxin when touched. It is the most virulent species of stinging tree. Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes a painful stinging sensation which can last for days or even months and the injured area becomes covered with small red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is known to have killed one human, and it can also kill dogs and horses."

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Yeah, good one Tony. Now nobody will want to come visit. :ahh:

Now we'll have to take Tim Tams over to GSR to calm them all down!

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But those things are addicting. And yes, Tony has pushed me away from ever going there!:p