Burning rumors

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Posted by Mike McIntyre, Coach on team #47 from Pontiac Central HS.

Posted on 3/5/99 11:19 PM MST



RUMOR Cobo Hall in Detroit catches fire shortly after Delphi puts on an exhibition; possibly a connection...?
FACT An entire day went by between our exhibition and the fire: the only thing we burned up was a Victor when some metal flakes somehow fo
und their way in through the fan opening.
RUMOR Chief Delphi and the other Delphi Teams got an extra 5 hours to work on their robots.
FACT How we wish that was true! (We could have really used it) Unfortunately, the robots were all crated before 9P
M, with permission from FIRST, so that a demonstration of what we're all about could be made for all the SAE Convention to see. From those 4 extra hours you subtract the drive time in heavy traffic, the looking for parking, loading all of your pit suppli
es into a trailer, unloading all of your stuff, waiting around for the Teamsters to load/unload crates, waiting for the field to be set up...etc. I estimate that we may have gained an hour of time with the robot, but I'm sure the Delphi teams that came fr
om Flint, Kokomo and Saginaw actually LOST time with their machines. None of us with Chief Delphi really wanted to go: the time could have been much better spent in our own facility: all our resources would have been handy and our drivers would have had f
ar more time on the machine; we put in the 16 hour day because we thought that it was important to let engineers and business leaders from across the country get a look at a FIRST event, not because we were looking for some kind of an edge.