Coming soon: White paper on Crate

[Justin Stiltner]

In response to ken,
My team has been using an diamond plate crate since 2004 that had locking handels on it, we have never had any trouble with the shipping companys or any others about them not being able to open the crate. Just rember if you put a lock on it, make shure multiple people have the key and ALL of them bring it with them. I can think of 2 times that we have loaned hacksaws/dremels to teams that forgot their key.

[generalbrando]

I've finished the first version of the crate design white paper, though I'm not happy with it, so I've added the disclaimer below. You can find it in the white pages under Team Organization (it's still pending moderation though).









Due to the lack of time to perfect this document and provide photographs and details specifications, it is best that teams spend a little time thinking about this design before building their crate.

This document will be updated next season (current is 2006). This season team #246 will be helping local rookie teams build this crate. As a part of that event, more information will be collected to improve this document.

In the mean time, we would like to extend help to other teams in using this incomplete guide. Please contact us when you find that we’ve left out too many details by e-mailing bufirst@bu.edu or mensing@bu.edu. We cannot guarantee we will be able to get back to you, but we will do our best.