So I go to UPS.com to check the status of my pneumatic fitting shipment, when I see this status:
MEMPHIS, TN, US 01/25/2010 11:00 A.M. TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENT OCCURRED
I’m guessing we won’t be plumbing up the pneumatics tonight.
I hope it shows up soon!
At least it isn’t this (posted recently around the web by many people):
http://www.mixx.com/photos/10314300/yes_fedex_does_international_shipping
and I hope it doesn’t mean this:
Only you Gary!
Team 1746 has!:eek: Last year a 500lb sprocket came loose and fell on their robot while in transit
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7719&d=1237639629http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7720&d=1237639638
Heh, it shouldn’t delay your fittings more than a day or two, but that has to be both extremely funny and extremely frustrating. 
My Friend, there is NOTHING that can top that. This incident purely takes the cake for “Really? Did that REALLY happen?”
I am on 1746 and when that happened we all knew it would be a long cpuple of days to fix it. Luckily the cRio, which took most of the force, was unharmed.
a 500lb sprocket.
oh dear.
I recently saw on failblog I think it was that a person tracked a package going from new jersey to another spot in the northeast and it passed through paris france
Sorry for further derailing, but I have to ask and am sure others are curious too…Where does one get a 500 lb sprocket? and what is it used for?
Are you still getting the parts? Man that suck! good luck
I’ve seen some pictures of pretty wild FedEx/Event Forklift fail WRT Robot Shipping. Teams showing up at regionals to find that a forklift leg was driven through their crate, or teams having their robot arrive home saran-wrapped to a pallet, when it left the regional in a crate (it fell off the back of the truck, and their crate shattered.) There was a thread on here a while back about it.
I honestly would not have believed that if someone told me it… not in a hundred years!
I hope they had insurance?
We seldom think of it, but every once in a while there is an accident. Sometimes it’s minor; the packages are all OK but delayed a day. Sometimes, though, the truck (or airplane!) catches fire and the package ends up as ashes…
Thankfully rare, but it does happen.
500 lb sprockets? Those are used on the larger FRC robots…:rolleyes:
We use large (several hundred pounds) sprockets to move chain systems that have hundreds of engines hanging from them. They move them down the line for people to work on them as they pass.
That said, can you imagine:
I wonder if they classified that as an accident…
US Tsubaki would be one source. Think roller coaster lift chain…
Memphis?
Lets hope the driver got bored and took a daytrip to Graceland.
After all, it was Elvis’ 75th birthday recently. 
(and yes I know they have a sorting facility in Memphis)
how about a sprocket for a ceiling-mounted crane in a warehouse? very possible
Martin Sprockets, Atlanta GA.
They couldn’t tell us what it was used for …
It does make really good pancakes out of FRC robots, though …
i bet