I need clarification on a very specific part of this rule, what is a specific definition of ‘Minor Protrusions’.
“Minor protrusions no greater than ¼ in. (~6 mm)”
For some context, we have a gear sticking out of frame perimeter by about .1 of an inch, that gives us no advantage to having it outside frame perimeter, just a mistake, and the team is split on whether it falls under this rule or not. Is it legal?
Nope. A gear is not a “minor protrusion”, and you’re going to have to fix it before you can compete.
That’s what I thought, Thanks
If you built your FRAME PERIMETER less than the 120 inch limit could you easily add some material outside/around the gear to increase your FRAME PERIMETER slightly rather than altering the internal mechanics of your existing system?
Yeah that’s the plan, thanks for the suggestion.
In my experience gear = no. Head of a bolt o other fastener = yes. Was explained to us again this year as it seems we were off by 1/16 with a bracket but the heads of bolts were ok even though they stuck out more than 1/16th
Update: The robot still passed inspection even without fixing it.
And that’s an inspector that needs re-training.
Gears can’t define the Frame Perimeter, because they move. Unless it was a particularly small gear…
(I’ve seen this time after time after time: Inspectors don’t always know or catch things.)
It was out of the frame perimeter plane by about .063 of an inch about 20 inches up from the frame. Kinda hard thing to catch, and it was also a new inspector.
Congratulations on getting away with it, I guess.
Know some refs that would probably spot it. Starting Configuration has no “minor protrusion” allowance.
None of them trained inspectors. Whether they’d do anything about it, other than tell you to get it in compliance before coming back, I don’t know…
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