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Re: 1458 Done Friday, Broken Saturday, Done Sunday

We have a similar story, but it's happened twice. For our scrimmage we didn't have a tall enough truck to take everything in, so we only took the drive base. Go figure, our 3/8" clearance wasn't enough to get over the curling on the sides of the glassliner panels since the robot slightly sinks on them due to the carpet undernearth. 3 hours of work later, and that problem was easily fixed with elevator bolts.

Then, yesterday during practice our honeycomb aluminum & fiberglass floor cracked at one of the pivot points for the kick modules. Now we're reinforcing it with an aluminum plate on either side of the fiberglass and in another hour or so the epoxy we set in place last night at 2am should be done. ... it's been a loooong weekend! Our latest recurring theme is "It's a good thing this didn't happen at competition. It'd be a bad day if it did."

Yet our bot is by far the funnest thing I've ever driven/played with/built/got cut up & knicked for. So it's worth it, and it'll be ready for DC ... next week ?! .
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