Cool new ideas for FIRST Robots - who has them?

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Originally Posted by Cory

a machine shop will likely price such a project out, very very high. In 2004 we got a quote for how much it would cost to machine a transmission similar to the Technokats 2003 drive, and it came out at around $10,000 (No joke).

You say similar. Maybe it was similar except you wanted it 10 times the size? To drive a real car? Were you having them purchase new equipment for the job? Did you ask for one-ten-thousandth accuracy?

$10K for that tiny transmission is a heck of a lot. They probably just didn't want your business so they gave you that high number so you'd walk away and never come back.

I know it is all different parts and not a bunch of the same but still, it's not really that many parts and it's not really all that complex.