Drill presses and bandsaws back in the pits

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Drill presses and bandsaws back in the pits

View Poll Results: Team-provided bandsaws and drill presses at competitions
Allow them in the pits	87	59.59%
Allow them in a supervised "quick cut/drill" station	49	33.56%
Allow them only in a FIRST-approved machine shop	9	6.16%
Forbid teams from bringing them to events	1	0.68%
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12-03-2007, 01:09

MrForbes

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Re: Drill presses and bandsaws back in the pits

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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

What's even more impressive is when a student can make such a drawing, and present it to another student, who then makes said part.

yeah, that's even better! Doing that during the stress of having to get the robot working thursday afternoon is an added bonus....and kind of what is the issue here.

I can easily see both sides of the machines-in-the-pits issue. I certainly see the problem with FIRST springing the rule on us as they did. Fortunately our team is in a position where it did not affect us at all.

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