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Re: Things You Shouldn't Do

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Originally Posted by nitneylion452 View Post
We had someone measure the distance between the terminals of a battery with a measuring tape. He contacted both terminals. Needless to say, the tape measure is no good from ~2 to ~4 inches. Completely burnt. It now sits proudly in our hall of shame, along with some other things.
I would like to see what else is there.

We never do any drilling on a robot with any electrical parts attached unless a vacuum is sucking away chips and swarfs from the drill. Lexan, Wood, Aluminum, Poolnoodles, nothing is drilled unless a vacuum is there.

Once we were using a piece of scrap metal to determine angle on last year's bot's Lexan, and almost contacted bare battery terminals.