[cbale2000]

Oldest Working: 2011 (barely)
Oldest "Shell": 2003 (Bare chassis, wheels still intact)

I've tried to keep pressure on our team to NOT disassemble our old robots. We had our 2006 robot running until a few years ago when we were told to take it apart to salvage parts from it (though we never reused any of the parts from it). Ironically, the only thing wrong with that robot when we took it apart was that we couldn't find any usable game pieces for it. It was a shame too, cause it was a very nice demo robot.

That said, we are in the process of getting our 2007 robot working again. A few years back we converted it to a rideable "chair-bot" but after some use we broke a few of the the gears on the custom shifter mechanism in one of the gearboxes. We're working on adapting a pair of newer off the shelf gearboxs to drive it instead.