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Re: Is powder coating and annodizing worthwhile?

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Originally Posted by Retired Starman View Post
Either that or. . . Your robot looks like it was built by adults off in a shop somewhere else and wasn't really "kid-built". I saw one robot this year which was done by a veteran team. It had a beautiful anodized finish on parts that had been CNC fabricated. The robot looked great, until you saw the piece of unfinished 1 by 8 wood, held on with some rather ugly right-angle brackets, that was being used as the minibot deployment unit. It was painfully obvious which parts of the robot the kids had built and which had been done by mentors/sponsors.

Dr. Bob
I don't think this is a debate you want to get into.

Reevaluate your statements and assumptions before you post again please.
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