Thread: Fasteners extending outside the FRAME PERIMETER
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Re: Fasteners extending outside the FRAME PERIMETER
Wow update 7 is frustrating... so this means our screw heads and washers keeping our drive shafts in are now illegal, great.

Yea I know is some sort of wording this was always illegal, but I don't undersand why FIRST would go to the effort, in week 4, to define how we must design the area beneath our bumpers in such a specific way. In all honesty this is a very unenforceable rule defined so late in the season, that some 'elite' teams are going to have a tough time meeting. I feel sorry for teams who built their frame out of sheet metal and rivits. These rulings makes me think that the GDC didn't even consider the realistic consequences of this definition, and how unenforceable it will be.
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