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Originally Posted by Andrew Bates
Why all the holes?
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I thought it was a clean lightening pattern. There could triangles, squares, really any pattern or none at all. I tried several and liked this one the best.
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Originally Posted by nahstobor
So teams can mount it to their robot  |
1/4" holes are great for 1/4-20 bolts or 1/4" rivets
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Originally Posted by Colin P
bahahaha YES.
This trophy is totally awesome, I'd be proud to put it up in my shop.
This year's trophies are garbage, but it's understandable why.
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I actually think that if FIRST switched to sheetmetal trophies they would save money. I don't know what the cost of the current regional trophies are to make but I do know that most of FIRST's sponsors have the resources to blast these out very quickly if they were asked to. Costs would include the source sheet metal plus machining and assembly time. Machining is simply waterjeting or lasercuting. Assembly includes 4 bends in the same plane (very easy) and the two pieces of the trophy go together with 6 rivets. I imagine with donated resources trophies would cost FIRST nothing and the donating company very little.