01-03-2010, 20:34
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Re: legality of bolt and screw heads breaking plane of chassis meeting bumpers
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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur
Art,
First off, I don't like the ruling anymore than the next guy, but ...
Asking your customer for the reasoning behind a spec is all well and good (and actually very wise), but posting on a unofficial, public forum that their specifications are "stupid" is niether proactive nor wise. This is neither the proper forum, nor the proper way to get an appropriate answer ... hence my "whine" comment.
Also, when asking for the reasoning, you might want to consider "because we said so" as a valid answer, lest your customer take his multi-billion dollar buisiness elsewhere. You see there may be many possible reasons why they cannot disclose information to you (IP issues?). Consider this just a design constraint.
All in all, you might consider just putting your efforts into making sure that those who didn't follow the letter of the rule still get on the field, rather than bash those who put the design constraint in place.
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Wait.. FIRST is our customer??  
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