Build Counts

[Idaman323]

Well into our build time we started breaking an overwhelming amount of blades/bits... so we decided to start a count. Here are the results:

Dremel blad count: 42
Drill Bit count: 8
Car A-Arm count (axel): 1 (yes we had someone hit a curb with his car and bent his axel...)
Broken Victor Count: 4 (3 of them were found at the regionals)
Large CIM motor: 1
Trial and Error Count: Infinity and 6

Anyone else make a tally of anything else? Or did anyone else break as many things as us? Hehe...

[MrForbes]

We can probably count a fender and parking light then....my son driving to the robotics meeting near the beginning of the build

[Nita]

I believe for my team, the list is something like...
1 drill (it just stopped working while we were using it o_o)
2 drill bits
1 missing center punch
1 victor

P.S. My dad can totally rock car axles if you send it over here. j/k... but he can!

[Chriszuma]

Well if we are counting car accidents on the way to robotics meetings, then we'll have to count Lindsey's whole car, which was totaled when she was blindsided by a truck full of immigrants with no drivers license.

[Idaman323]

Well... we have another car that was totaled on the way home from regionals... they were rear ended and cause a 5 car pile up.. including a huge van. And yah.. the guy who bent the axel has a new car now. But yah.. apparently robotics causes a lot of car accidents..

[Jeff K.]

Originally Posted by Idaman323

Well... we have another car that was totaled on the way home from regionals... they were rear ended and cause a 5 car pile up.. including a huge van. And yah.. the guy who bent the axel has a new car now. But yah.. apparently robotics causes a lot of car accidents..

That sounds familiar....

Last year a guy on our team was driving home from a regional and was following his dad and rear ended his car. Totaled his car and wrecked his dad's.

[sanddrag]

I think members of our team cumulatively had 3 funerals to deal with this build season. We had to share our machine shop with another team, and they sold off I think 1 or 2 mills and lathes from the shop. I broke a centerdrill. I broke the plug on our Dewalt chop saw. Students broke 2 keyway broaches and a crbide tipped lathe cutter. At the regional, we busted a big and a small CIM. I think that about does it.

[MrForbes]

could be something to do with all that thinking that this stuff requires...it's easy to let your mind drift off on some engineering problem while you're driving.