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3 lbs over weight -- going on diet... ...again!
Posted by Joe Johnson at 2/12/2001 10:10 AM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
In Reply to: Our may be history
Posted by Andy Baker on 2/12/2001 12:41 AM EST:
The Chief Delphi Robots have been on more diets than Oprah!
At this point we estimate that we are 3 lbs over. Working on it.
At the present, weight is only one of several show stoppers that we are fighting.
One involves a simple matter of conversion between the metric method of defining gear teeth (module = millimeters of diameter per tooth) and the English method (Diametral Pitch = Number of teeth per inch of diameter).
What I WANTED was a 24 DP gear with 37teeth. What I had made was a 0.9449 module gear (24/25.4). What I SHOULD have had made was a 1.0583 module gear (25.4/24).
As the folks from the NASA mars mission can tell you, conversions between English and metric can cause a lot of grief.
Right now, I wish weight were our only problem. But it is not.
Joe J.
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