Thread: Tape measure proboscus
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Unread 13-04-2002, 19:19
Andy A. Andy A. is offline
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May still be illegal
I don't have my rule book, so I very well may be wrong but...

Is putting a tape measure on your 'bot for any reason legal? As in, can you find it in the kit, Small Parts or on the additional hardware list? It seems to me that it's one of those things that wouldn't fit any 3 of those criteria, making it illegal to have on the 'bot. I know of at least one team at UTC that used an entire tape measure to great effect, so clearly the refs either didn't notice, didn't care or ruled it as legal. With all the smog surrounding the teather rules this year, I can't possibly say what it was.

I'm very interested in this, anyone with a rule book close by that could give an interpritation of this? Or a SPI catalog? Now that I think about it, they may have tape measures in there...

-Andy A.
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