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Re: Contradicting dimensions?

It's the lack of dimensions (or dimensioning that is stupid like to the edge of a hole) that is the frustrating part. When you have to spend 2 hours going through all the drawings adding the length of all the pieces up just to get some very basic, critical dimensions of the field pieces, it's quite frustrating.

And then you do all that and you build a ball return chute that is to "spec" (even though the specs are not really available on the actual positioning of the chute on the field) to the best you can do to their "competition field" drawings and the returned balls continually bounce off the tower top bar...it's quite frustrating...

And then the field you had parents and students work a week building per the "low cost" field drawings and you find that parts of it are off not by fractions of an inch, but by inches (because the drawings are wrong), FIRST quickly becomes the low bar by telling students "Your drawings for parts at least must be better than FIRST drawings..."

It's quite sad actually... Oh well...at least they got the KOP right...oh...wait...
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