[Jimbo2032]

Al,

In the future it (sealing/painting) will definitely be something we do. However, by reading the the game manual there was no way to know that was a common practice. Why, just a year or two ago we had an inspector gauge the perimeter of our robot with a home made 'plumb bob', made from fishing line and a raw lead sinker.

Being from rural Georgia, where gun racks hung students trucks in the parking lot don't raise an eyebrow, and lead sinkers are cast from discarded wheel weights after school, it never occurred to us (mentors or parents) that others may have an issue with our ballast choice. Rest assured that in the future we will make it a point to use the coated style (unless those are outlawed). I've been needing a good excuse to buy new dive weights for a while anyways!

Just goes to show you don't know what you don't know. And I'm sure as the years go on we'll find new and exciting ways to discover taboos the hard way.