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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
If this is for real, it's moments like these that makes me *facepalm* at FIRST. Rules like disallowing the painting of pneumatics really detracts from the overall goal of FIRST. This isn't the way to inspire students to become engineers/scientists/etc. Way to drop the ball again, FIRST.
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No it is to ensure we have future engineers that weren't injured by exploding pneumatics. As someone pointed out in the case of plastic tanks the solvents in the paint certainly have the potential to weaken the plastic. In the case of metal tanks paint could cover the fact that the tanks have been modified and people in the normal paint prep procedure often sand items first which of course would weaken them even if only slightly.