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Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 4/20/99 8:10 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: How long does it take ? posted by Sean Kim on 4/20/99 12:56 PM MST:



The robot has been out of our hands since the Tuesday after the Great Lakes Regional.

FIRST is very flexible as to what it takes to meet the 'out of our hands' requirement, provided that you run things by them first of course.

In our case, we have a lockable crate that one of our local competitors locks for us. When we get to the competition on Thursday, we get our box unlocked.

Of course, we only get the crate unlocked if everthing goes according to plan...

For one reason or another, we have had to cut the lock off our crate 2 or 3 times in 2 years.

I think that Delphi Delco had to cut off their lock in the pits in Ypsi as I recall.

Anyway, that explains why our robot will be arriving with some of our engineers, even though it has been 'out of our hands' for going on 4 weeks now.

Joe J.

P.S. If the drive team takes more than 19 hours I will be shocked! FYI they left the Delphi parking lot at 1401 Crooks Road, Troy, MI 48084 at about 5 minutes to 3pm EDT on Tuesday, April 20.

My guess is that they will roll into the All-Star Parking lot about 10am on Weds. April 21. Look for a green Suburan pulling a black trailer.