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Re: Worst Deals in FIRST Choice

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
Things seem reasonably 'priced' this year, more so than before. I find the pneumatic compo0nents to be good bargains: priced out fittings, tubing or valves lately? And an old-style PDB for an off-season or practice bot is a nice bargain.
I agree that the prices went to a much more acceptable level for most items. Pneumatics last year were just crazy under valued, as the fitting bag was about 10x cheaper last year. I'm all in on the old control system parts, might not help for the 2015 build season but there are 10 other months in the year for teams to find uses for them.

I'm confused a little by the linear v-groove track since the lengths seem small and the bearings aren't also available. I think it would be hard for teams to put it to good use but maybe I'm missing something.
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