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Originally Posted by eagle33199
No, AndyMark does not "know something we don't". While they provide a lot of FIRST-legal stuff, and are FIRST's partner for FIRST Choice, not everything on their site has to be FIRST-legal. AndyMark is a business just like any other place you'd buy stuff to put on your robot.
All that said, please note that the Pneumatic Tubing available on FIRST Choice does not have specs on AndyMark's website (and even the picture of the black tubing is different from that previously posted). The link to the product website specifies 14 different specs, one of which includes the 1.6" ID tubing we've had in the past.
So... Everyone should just wait 4 more days before purchasing any pneumatic tubing for the season  |
AndyMark
frequently knows some things we don't. That's a non-rebuttable statement, given that they handle FIRST Choice and have regularly supplied KOP items (including custom ones for which advance knowledge would be unavoidable).
It wouldn't be a stretch to
wonder if they might have accidentally suggested something about the 2012 KOP specs by offering non-KOP, but compatible tubing themselves. Another possibility is, as you mentioned, that they offer it independently of their FIRST offerings. (If it's not FRC-legal, the lack of a disclaimer to that effect will be less than ideal after the 2012 kickoff, given that FRC is their principal market.) In this case, you're correct that they list what appears to be the conventional Freelin-Wade KOP tubing under the FIRST Choice 2012 catalogue. (And of course none of this can easily be confirmed or dismissed until the manual is released. I'm prepared to wait.)