To the people who say I made mistakes when building WBC, you are right, I did make one big mistake.
I did not calculate the number of people who would annoy me by telling me I built it incorrectly.
I have learnt much from that, a lot of it from a just few of the FRA members.

I have been reminded just how annoying nit pickers can be.
The most annoying are those who do not check their facts before telling me I did something wrong.
Such as telling me and the world that I can€™t weld grade 5 tititanium, when I was not actually using grade 5 titanium.
If you get your facts wrong when telling someone off, the telling off rebounds on you and you are regarded with suspicion and probably disliked.

Had I built WBC perfectly, without any errors at all, I would still be looking for the perfect pencil to start the first sketch with, and no one would have heard of it.
But I did build it, using the best materials and techniques available at the time, and millions of people remember it, warts and all.

We should remember that robots for RW were supposed to be built on the cheap, from surplus materials by amateurs.
Most are still built that way and to the best ability of those amateurs.

We know they dont have college degrees in robot building techniques, and never will have.
Some of them will, by safety standards, do a poor job, but it is the best they can do.
Technical inspections can only be so thorough and may miss, for example, bad joints in wiring and other well hidden faults.

Those of us responsible for event safety must take that into account when robots are let loose in the arena and use our lifes experience to make sure that nobody gets hurt.

Your experience will not the same as the guy in charge at the time.
If you question his methods be VERY sure you do know what you are talking about or you will be the one in the wrong.

I have now made another mistake; I have posted on this forum again.

Some will no doubt find reason in this post to say things to annoy me again and no doubt what I have said here will annoy some of you.

It was not my intention to annoy anybody deliberately and you should take that into account before you do get annoyed.