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Re: Our Fall 2015 Sine Plate Project

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Originally Posted by Big Ideas View Post
As a welder, I can't believe you are thinking about precision below .1 deg. or even .5deg. If you have a 6" rod that is off in angle by .005deg the end will have shifted by .0005 inches. I would want to redesign any FRC parts that required that much precision.
If precision was the only motivator for this project, I think they would have either bought a sine plate or used some kind of stress-relieved steel, hardened it, and ground it to final dimensions. Realistically it will probably provide very good accuracy compared to no sine plate at all, albeit worse than a professional sine plate.
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