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Originally Posted by sanddrag
- Bring back the benefit to and emphasis on designing and manufacturing your own solutions, rather than buying a bunch of COTS stuff to put together.
- Eliminate about 1/4 of the volunteers. But the reality is, you look at (offseason) events that don't have as many, and they run very well, because the people they do have know what they're doing, and there's no extra people to hassle you about anything.
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I was spoiled while I was with the teams in LA having a machine shop at the high school, as well as the college, that were used to manufacture our own gearboxes and other stuff. With my rookie team this year, we had metal cutting hacksaws that the mentors purchased, a drill press, a band saw that couldn't cut wood straight, a miter saw, and some hand drills that the mentors brought in. Designing solutions using COTS materials turns out to be just as good a challenge, albeit a different one. All of the same engineering goes into the design regardless if it's a custom built or COTS designed system.
As for the volunteers, which ones would you eliminate?