Thread: Shipping Damage: Happened To You?
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Re: Shipping Damage: Happened To You?
Fortunately most shipping experiences are positive... but wow... when they go sideways, do they EVER go sideways.

Our experience with shipping was completely the opposite... in Portland a couple years ago we left a 2'x3' piece of foamboard on top of our crate by accident. We discovered it when we met up with our robot in Toronto, basically unmoved from where we left it. So we left it on top to see if it would make it home... and there it was, across the continent and back, through the border and who knows how many warehouses, and this little piece of board never even moved.

This year, though, we had the ideal packing material... the trackball! Given the design of our robot we were able to load it up with the trackball and squeeze it in to the crate with the ball fully inflated. Since we only had to remove one bumper to fit into the crate, I'm willing to bet that we were the only team whose robot came out of the crate fully FRC legal, loaded and ready to score a hurdle. (Okay... we DID have to attach batteries first.)

Jason
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