02-03-2003, 03:13
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Dare to Live!
 FRC #0115 (Monta Vista Robotics Team) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2001
Rookie Year: 1999
Location: Palo Alto, California
Posts: 2,390
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You had more than 6 weeks to decide on the gear ratios and have the gears customized. If you still couldn't make use of that time, then you got to wait until regionals to do it. The rule is pretty much simple as that.
All those rules allowing you to buy extra parts, or make IDENTITCAL parts only allow you to repeat what you did during the 6 weeks.
So... You should go ahead and buy the gears that are off the shelve. If you have to custom machine those gears, then they are not off the shelve anymore, and you should've use the 6 weeks to do that. Drilling holes in your gears is just like drilling holes in some other part of the robot.
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