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Re: Painting and Scheduling

We started powdercoating the robot in 2012 and it definitely adds ~3 days to the build process. But the result is worth it in my opinion. The whole team takes a lot of pride in a nicely finished product. The real trick is to find a powdercoater that will work with you on your timeline. Our sponsor, Classic PowderCoating, actually delivered some of our parts to us as soon as they were ready. He even ran out of gold flake while doing some of the pieces and drove to San Jose to pick up more that same day to finish the job.

Other things to consider is the 2-3 hours of filing/reaming bearing holes and such. It also adds 2-4 lbs.

Our week 6 schedule has our robot frame, wheels, and manipulator components ready to go to the powdercoater on Monday of that week. The powdercoater agrees to get it back to us no later than Thursday afternoon. We then do an all day/night session on Thursday-Friday assembling and wiring the robot to have it ready to scrimmage on Saturday (some assembly happens at the Scrimmage as well). Since we can't do much with a robot that is at the paint shop, our programmers/drivers are busy testing code and practicing on our first unpainted robot.
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