Thread: 2005 FP Pinion
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Re: 2005 FP Pinion

How would you handle this if you were FIRST?

This is a pretty tricky situation. Do you let teams basically use whatever Fisher Price transmission they want? Do you give teams options (pick from one of these model)?

I swear that I recall a debate in years past between Bill Beatty and I that more or less ran along the line of "my motor has N teeth," "mine has N+1" "F-P sent me replacements with N-1 teeth" and so on.

I didn't know what to make of this then, but perhaps this type of thing has been going on for years.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

My thought would be that you get what you get as far as what is in the kit for you to use. If you want to go to the bother of getting one of the other parts that other folks got in the kit, feel free to work with F-P dealer/service or trade with another team.

I think this keeps FIRST out of it and it makes it fair if you REALLY need that extra power motor that some other team got.

It will be interesting to see what the variation in performance is on the various motors, but I think for the most part, it won't matter that much. As with so much in FIRST, we will adjust and move on*.

Joe J.


*of course, this is easy for me to say, I have already made the following statement before the House Committee on Unfair Activities: "I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Life-Should-Be-Fair Party" ;-)
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