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Re: 2nd Most Awaited Q and A Answer?

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
The last week of build, iirc.

If you're depending on getting the "right" wording on the inspection checklist for a mechanism on your robot to be legal, you might want to redesign the mechanism NOW
Thanks. We're legal (it's more a "D" than anything else), but for anyone who is looking only to the robot rules or inspection checklist, don't forget G21. As a ref, this is all very painful. At least inspectors get to slowly look at one robot however they'd like. I shudder at what could be required of refs in terms of G21. Will the inspectors take care of it all, or do we need eagle eyes to tell which edge/component crossed the perimeter first? What if I see a partially obscured Y/V/U and mistake it for two "1"s?

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
What this means: if you follow these two Q&A rulings strictly, all wheels, gears, sprockets, rollers, or any other type of rotary motion device (with an axis of rotation parallel to the frame perimeter) on an appendage are now illegal.
Note that this only applies if the shaft is parallel to the frame perimeter plane (or angled but not long enough). Perpendicular shafts should be fine. (This also applies to H's that are vertical or I-shaped crossing the perimeter.) Well, both should be fine, but perpendicular shafts are fine even accepting ridiculousness.
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