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Re: Inspection Stories
Last year, we spent all of Friday night going through inspection, missing the practice matched at both events. Both times were for bumpers.
The first time, two of the bumpers arrived late, and we couldn't finish weighing without the complete bumper set. I was told that they were having sponsor logos put on them, to which I replied "Isn't that illegal?". They were, thus requiring us to use a heat gun to unstick the 4 or 5 stickers on each bumper to get them off before finally finishing inspection.
The second time we had all our bumpers. When the inspector came over we had them off, and were asked to put them on. Someone asked which ones were which, since the front and back were similar. The reply was "the back bumper is the one with the hole cut in it". The inspector obviously heard and turned the bumper segment over. We had cut a rectangular hole in the plywood backing, which was not legal, but had gone unnoticed at the first event. On top of that, the reason for the hole was to allow for movement of a part that stuck partially out of the back of the robot that did not qualify as a minor protrusion from the frame perimeter. We had to redo the whole bumper piece, but the only plywood at the event was the floor of our battery carrier. Since it would be stationary at the event, we took it off, used half to extend our frame perimeter past the part, and the other half to make a new bumper.
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FRC 2079 - 4H ALARM Robotics 2015 - 2017
FLL 2011, 2013
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