FRC Blog - Something New - Team 'Standards'

[MrBasse]

While looking over the design requirements for the standards this year, a student raised a good question. The requirements specify that the horizontal supports must have a diameter no larger than 1/2 inch. They specify diameter and to me that means that it has to be round, but they also say that the designs will not be inspected. To the student this means he can do whatever he wants as long as the vertical support is 1/2 inch OD. He has a clever design, but will it cause a problem to not use two round horizontal supports? Thoughts?

I would bring up the spec sheet, but with the new website changing the way all the old links work, I have to dig some more to find exact language and I never thought I would need to print it as it was available online.