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I was always hesitant to paint or powder coat the aluminum parts of the robot. Occasionally... very occasionally, we would have to take a metal part to the machine shop at an event and ask them to weld it, or to weld something to it. Admittedly it doesn't take long to clean paint off a part... or even powder coat... but it does take time.

Of course we had not such concerns when we made the robots out of wood. Aniline dyes and lacquer were our blingy finish!

Jason