10-01-2017, 15:05
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761 Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 877
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Re: Loctite vs press fit
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Originally Posted by Cory
loctite works totally fine. Make sure you get the appropriate one based on the size gap it needs to fill. Also make sure to use the primer on both pieces.
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and make sure to get the right kind for removal should you need to take it apart. some will loosen with heat, and some won't. in 2001 we accidentally assembled our shifting gearboxes with the wrong one and promptly snapped all the heads off the screws when trying to take it apart to fix something.
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Student FRC23 (1996-1999), Mentor FRC246 (2000), Mentor FRC1318 (2007-2009), Mentor FRC93 (2011), Mentor FRC2151 (2012), Mentor FRC23 (2013), Mentor FRC4761 (2014-2017)
1998 - National Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers Award (FRC23, Mike Bastoni  ) | 2007 - PNW SF (488, 1595) | 2008 - Oregon RCA - Seattle #2 Seed, SF (488, 1696) | 2009 - Oregon #1 Seed, Winners (1983, 2635) - Seattle SF (945, 2865) - Galileo #2 Seed, SF (973, 25) | 2012 Midwest F (111, 71) | 2014 RIDE Winners (78, 125), Inspector - NEU #24, QF (3479, 3958) - NECMP #35 | 2015 Reading #11, SF (1058, 190), Inspector - RIDE #17, QF(4055, 5494), Inspector - NECMP #57 | 2016 Reading #4, SF (133, 4474), DCA, Inspector - Ride #22, SF (1735, 2067), Creativity, Inspector - NECMP #48, RCA - Archimedes
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Brandon, can you make some sort of mind-reading device that i can just think "portal" and i'll go back? - Tom Schindler [more] 
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