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Re: Bumper Rule
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Originally Posted by eagle33199 View Post
Can you quote the rule stating that you "must" use a vertical pool noodle on the corners? I've looked and can't seem to find it anywhere...
There is nothing requiring that a vertical pool noodle be used in the corner, but because the only thing that can be used in the corner is a pool noodle or cloth piece of bumper (and not wood, or other "hard" materials), most teams cut a pool noodle the height of a bumper and stand it up in the corner.

Figure 8-2 on page 10 of THE ROBOT shows exactly the scenario I am describing in the top left corner of the view of the robot on the left.

Quote:
"If needed, a pool noodle corner can be wrapped into bumpers - but only pool noodles & cloth may penetrate corner space"
And lower left on the image....
Quote:
"hard" bumper parts do not extend into the corners."
Basically what this is saying is that you can not "miter joint" the wood going around your robot behind your bumpers.

I'll try and get a good picture of what we have done and has been accepted in the past with these rules (which have not changed much, if any over the years of bumpers - other than the REQUIREMENT to have them this year as opposed to previous years.
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