pic: How MARS cuts!

[Pat Arnold]

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[AdamHeard]

No problems there, it seems like this yours turned out a lot better than ours anyway.

Shops help, but it's the team that matters...

We are planning on doing a lot better next year though

[RyanN]

We work in the school's wood shop, so nothing out of the ordinary in this picture. As you may guess, we do most of our prototyping with wood as well.

[Cooley744]

We work in a class room that we made into a shop. Unfortunatley, half of the room is used for tutoring elementary kids, so it's pretty small and crowded. It's better than nothing, so we are pretty thankful.

[wendymom]

1902 Has a chopsaw

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by wendymom

1902 Has a chopsaw

Chopsaw?

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Chopsaw?

I assume he means a cutoff saw, same thing as a chop saw. But yeah, we understand the feeling of trying to cut parts with a hacksaw, or trying to use a tiny little tabletop drill press. Or the best so far, using a hand drill as a lathe. I can't count the number of times we've said "You know, if we had a Bridgeport/Lathe..."

But I consider us lucky. We have a room and a sort of storage room in our school to use as our own. The main room is for fabrication, and storage area contains our shop. We currently have a grinder, two drill presses(one broken), two bandsaws (one needs some work), a cutoff saw, and some tools that are currently configured for woodworking such as belt grinders with sanding belts on them right now.

But overall I suppose we have it better then many teams, especially because we are able to work right at school and so have easy access to the room at most times.

[Pavan Dave]

20 dollars says the vice is not mounted to the table and he fell back after about 10 seconds of elbow grease! No pic no proof!!!

[1902_Battery_SGT]

Originally Posted by wendymom

1902 Has a chopsaw

Originally Posted by Billfred

Chopsaw?

Chopsaw

[robostangs548]

Wow, that is almost exactally how the Robostangs cut!

[Qbranch]

Thats how the Kil-A-Bytes cut when somebody breaks the bandsaw... (often)...

-q

[s_forbes]

I'm still trying to convince the N.E.R.D.S. that a hacksaw is one of the most usefull tools ever created. It's my prefered weapon when working on robot parts.

[Kyle A]

Man you guys are lucky. When I started on my team, all we had to cut with was this.
My team had a metal shop the next room over from where we worked, but when i was a Freshman, the Seniors had us cutting parts with hacksaws all of the time, I believe it was because they wanted to give us busy work, or they didn't trust us on the machines.

[Protronie]

Originally Posted by RyanN

As you may guess, we do most of our prototyping with wood as well.

Nice thing about working with wood... if you make a mistake... its not something lighter fluid and a match can't fix

[robostangs548]

Originally Posted by Protronie

Nice thing about working with wood... if you make a mistake... its not something lighter fluid and a match can't fix

That sounds like a pain, lighter fluid and a match..... You should just do what we do.... Playdo!! Everyone knows that is the most accurate thing to mold your robot parts out of! All you need is a butter knife... Who needs a cnc, or a waterjet? Thats it, next year i am gona make our robot out of Playdo!