Thread: Fasteners extending outside the FRAME PERIMETER
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Re: Fasteners extending outside the FRAME PERIMETER
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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
Kevin,
If it helps, bolt heads have always been tested with the box. If in the past you drilled out the back of the bumpers as allowed, the frame perimeter was still set by the maximum dimension of the bolts.
Al, are you confusing FRAME PERIMETER and NORMAL CONFIGURATION? Normal configuration is the size that has to fit in the box, bolt heads and all.

The FRAME PERIMETER is a subset of that, the polygon defined by the string stretched around the robot at the BUMPER ZONE level. Even if the FRAME PERIMETER is only 20x30", nothing is supposed to be wider than it, not even a bolt head, whether that is outside 10-16" off the ground. Even if it would fit in the sizing box.

Now, are you going to be measuring for that? So the 1/4" extension of a bolt causes the robot to fail inspection? Or are the inspectors and refs only going to be eyeballing it?
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