[Travis Covington]

Do what we (and many others probably) did...

In 2003, after being super jealous of team 60 and others who had powdercoated/anodized robots... we decided to do the same.

Guess what we did? We picked up the phone book and started cold calling everyone in there until we got someone who said yes. It was as simple as that. It literally took less than an hour to find some one to do it. Even better, drive to these places and ask in person.. they usually will have a harder time saying no (be careful with the second one though)

This last year we had a bigger problem - we were way behind in the build and we had a hard time getting in touch with the company who helped us the previous year. So what did we do? Again, we grabbed the phonebook and called until we found a place that would be able to do it in less than 2 days. What do you know, it worked... even better, we got the pieces back overnight!! For free!

Let this be an example to those who think some of these teams are given thousands of dollars to go and pay companies to powdercoat/anodize their robots... not quite. A few phone calls and the right attitude can go a long way.

Don't forget to thank them afterwards! *cough* 968!