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Originally posted by Duke 13370
Don't defend the drive train FIRST supplied us with, we're a 4th year team with decent facilities and financing, and we didn't move well till the second day of the second regional. If FIRST wants to even it out a bit, give us gear sets for 4 motor drives made out of metal; the one this year was weak (both in power and in construction).
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You, sir, obviously don’t know a single thing about how those easy to assemble drive train pieces became kit parts. At the Sacramento Regional I had the privilege of working with Ron Rioux from FIRST. During the course of the regional he explained the long, drawn out, exorbitant process in which those kits were engineered and fabricated. I don’t remember everything, but I do remember that special molds in the range of $100,000 had to be machinedout of steel so that they would survive the injection molding process. Also, FIRST and Nypro didn’t decide to get these pieces done for the kits until late summer. This information in and of itself is awing. So, Duke 13370, please stop insulting people for trying to help teams.