16-01-2003, 16:26
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 FRC #0115 (Monta Vista Robotics Team) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2001
Rookie Year: 1999
Location: Palo Alto, California
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The only reason I can think of is Safety.
Any chance of failure of mechanisms using springs with lots of force, and the spring might snap, or the parts holding it, and parts start flying toward the audience. That will be a really bad thing at FIRST events, and people might get hurt, not to mention they might sue FIRST because of it.
It's just so much easier making a rule like this, and not worry about the trouble of not having the rule.
Maybe when FIRST field have the shield around it like battle bots, then we will get the springs back into the robot. Before then... I am afraid we will have to deal without it. Which is ok, consider everyone is under the same rule...
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