I'm wondering how many people had
"Some Settling during Shipping" ??
We arrived at the comeptition to find that our robot had been "tweaked" by the shippers.
http://www.tj2.org/2002/imagepages/p4250187.html
If you've seen our robot, you know that piece is supposed to be a triangle on the top of the robot.
http://www.tj2.org/2002/imagepages/p4270281.html
The best we can theroize it, the flipped the crate, and dropped it, so that all 130 pounds of the bot came crashing down onto itself.
Hard. Very Hard.
Thank god we had a spare of the piece. Our only casutily of the Nationals was shipper induced.
We had a pretty unique case. We "borrowed" one of the international shipping containers our sponser company uses. It's waterproof, and padded. We just strapped it to a pallet and we had an instant waterproof, FIRST approved shipping crate.