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Re: Most creative use of a part or material in 2008

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Originally Posted by Brian C View Post
I have to admit it felt funny writing it on the BOM though
Speaking of funny BOM items, to connect a servo to our trigger we needed some kind of rod we could bend into a good shape to act as a linkage between them. While scrounging around the shop for something I discovered a damaged umbrella that wouldn't be keeping the rain away anymore, so I cut off one of the poles that keeps the fabric taut and bent that into a linkage.

Of course when it came time to list it on the BOM we we're debating what the average cost of an umbrella was, and then someone pointed out we technically only used a portion of the umbrella.

Needless to say, we still have the umbrella cause it has many neat little parts for future use.
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