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Unread 05-01-2004, 19:20
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Re: Low Cost Field BOM

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Originally Posted by Raul
BTW - the toilet flange was also used in 2002.
After my post, I went back and edited it for some clarifications. I added that yes, the flange was used in 2002, but it was steel if I remember right, and as Matt Adams stated elegantly, steel means robot interaction. These are PVC flanges, so I doubt the robot will be interacting with these. That's my guess.

IN SUMMARY
1. There's a lot of PVC
2. There's a lot of plywood
3. There's 8lb of screws to go with all that plywood, so lots of construction is going to be needed.
4. There's only 3 castors, but they're super-heavy-duty 5" monsters
5. There are 8 heavy bolts, so assuming the field object is generally symetrical, the number of field object components is going to be either 8 (1 bolt per component), 4 (2 b/c), or 2 (4 b/c). I may be looking in too deep, but since 3 and 6 are not factors of 8, I don't think the field object will be triangular or hexagonal. Rather, I think it will be either 2-sided, 4-sided, or 8-sided.
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