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Re: Team Update #5

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Nope, because the smart teams always build smaller than the box to allow for bolt heads. Bolt heads are exempted from the frame perimeter. So it's quite possible to have a bolt head sticking out from the volume defined by the frame perimeter (vertical dimension infinite). Before this ruling, that would have been an issue--it was last year. Now that this update has come out, there is much rejoicing that this doesn't have to happen again.

The box is still the box; no leniency on that for being oversize.
I'm excited because our base is 1" undersized in any direction, but we have some minor protrusions in the bumper zone, and possibly one or two above, and they weren't specifically addressed prior to this update. I can sleep again.

Oh, and I can get rid of the wooden shims.
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