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Re: Fasteners extending outside the FRAME PERIMETER
I'm sorry this is getting out of hand, I am having a hard enough time understanding what is illegal and legal and I've been around FIRST for 6 years. The lawyering of these frame perimeter rules is going way to far, the GDC tells us to not lawyer the definition of the rules and try and understand the intent of the rule, however these frame perimeter rules are getting so lawyered and technical that I can't even explain it to the students I mentor.
This is a high school robotics competition, can we please make these frame perimeter rules easier to understand so the high school students I work with can sit down with the manual and understand them??
I understand the intent of the rule, to have the outside frame of the robot support the Bumpers in the Bumper Zone. But if this means I can't have my bumper frame protrude perpendicularly up from my the outside of my lower drive frame because of the #10 screw head that is holding our drive shafts in makes it illegal, this is getting way to technical. Yea there are ways that we can 'hack' our frame to fit the technicalities of these rules even though it is already all welded together, but I don't see why we would waste our time changing it when our frame meets the intent of the rules.
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Queen's University Mechanical Engineering, Applied Science '11
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