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Re: We have our own shop
Posted by Anne Lam at 05/27/2001 7:50 PM EST


Student on team #368, Kika Mana, from McKinley High School and HECO, NASA Aimes, Weinberg Foundation.


In Reply to: We have our own shop
Posted by Andy Baker on 05/25/2001 9:16 AM EST:



Team #368 has a shop, but we only have basic tools like drill presses, bandsaws, et cetra. For more complicated things like milling and lathing we had to borrow a machinist's shop, which fortunately was only a couple of blocks from school. And for even more complicated tasks like welding or cutting thick or wide pieces of metal we had to take our robot and or parts to a university shop, which could be a real hassle as you can imagine. This incidentally had cost us some construction time. Not having a professional machine shop is not a big deal to us since we could find ways to go about getting it done, but having one would definitely save us a lot of unnecessary time taking the robot all around and risk getting it damaged.




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