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Originally Posted by engunneer
Inspectors, what are the crazy things you've dealt with at events? Please share your "war stories" below.
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At one event I inspected a first or second year team. We were blowing through the inspection on a really nice 'bot till we came to a linear actuator mechanism they bought off the shelf. They had a catalog page showing it was available online and met all the accounting rules. Looked like this was no sweat. I asked to see which motor they had powering it.
Team member: Oh, one of those black ones.
Me: Oh, a CIM? can I see it?
TM: Uh, well, it's all sealed up in the device and kind of hard to get to. It looks just like that motor from the kit, though.
Me: Does it look like the motor or is it the motor? Does it have any of these part numbers on it?
TM: It's the one that came in the thing. Its from the same motor manufacture and looks like its the right size, so it's close enough, right?
Me: ...
What ensued was a long meeting with the LRI, me and the team. I don't know what the final call was. we were behind on inspections so I went to look at other teams. They did eventually passed inspection, but I never figured out if they swapped in a legal motor, if the one in the device turned out to be genuinely legal or if the LRI just let it go. It did
look legal...
Besides that, I think 98% of inspection issues have been about bumpers. No one likes hearing about bumpers not passing, so I'll save those stories.