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Re: pic: Team 973 2009 Robot - RAPTOR

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto View Post
Wow, thanks for the detailed response! Seems like you were fortunate to have that machine shop with tubing capabilities, probably not something a lot of teams could pull of with a basic lathe. In any case, thanks a lot for the insight! Good luck at Las Vegas and Champs!
In 2006 we turned the rollers for our practice bot on a 13x40 lathe (fairly common size for any kind of school machine shop with lathes) without much difficulty.

As long as you have the travel it's not too hard to do it manually. Takes a long time though.
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