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Re: "The Little Things" - Helpful hints for all
- Test setup your pit before an event, keep it the same from event to event, it will really speed up repairs if you know where things are.
- Save all your team documents in one place (Dropbox, Google Drive, another cloud or server solution). It's far easier to find something you already have than it is to remake it.
- Standardize your hole sizes and fasteners. We use 3/16" rivets and 10-24 bolts in 13/64" holes, it may not be a perfect solution but it works very well for most FRC robots.
- Limit your building materials: we try to only use a few select standard building materials to actually stock that way we if we need to remake something at competition we have the spare material to build it from. Our list includes 1x1x1/16" square and angle aluminum, 1x1x1/8" angle aluminum, 1/16" polycarb, and .09 sheet aluminum. A few other things creep in but for the most part everything is made from those items.
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LRI | Alamo Regional | 2014-20... "Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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