I'm trying to temper my frustrations by knowing that this probably doesn't ruin my team's robot or anything like that, and that FIRST didn't seem to have any good options here. They're doing what they can do now to fix it. But it's just such an amateurish mistake to make.
Does FIRST just not inspect their parts? Surely when someone got the part and measured it, they were comparing the measurement to a number written on some kind of drawing somewhere. They just don't verify dimensions against prints? Or they released the wrong print? What gives?
And the geometry of a 4.5" wide hat section isn't exactly rocket science for a supplier to make either. Dozens of teams have made their own without incident.
I guess I'm just venting. There's nothing else that can be done.
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Originally Posted by Cory
No, it's steel. They screwed up that part of the drawing too. The assembly drawing makes it clear it's a weldment and refers to it as "steel bump".
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While you're probably right, it was also "obviously" 4.5 inches wide too...