Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 07:23:24 10/26/04
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They did not have to age to break. Many arrived from the factory already broken. I recall that we would get in a shipment and put 10 out overnight in self-play mode, and, by morning, 1/2 would no longer work. Then, we would ship out the working units, and 1/2 of those customers would call to say they had a problem. You are quite fortunate to have a working model after all these years. Steve On October 26, 2004 at 09:39:47, Steve B wrote: > For the commercial units seen so far with low mass plastic arms, the >>danger of collision means damage to the arm. > > >actually the outer casing of the Novag Robot arm was made out of industrial >strenght steel or some similiar metal >the grasping claw however,was plastic >i have two robots >one in perfect condition >the second is defective in that the alignment of the arm is too low due to a >broken gear of some sort >this was damage caused in shipping the robot to me from the seller >a pity really..in all other aspects the computer and arm work perfectly but with >the arm too low it of course cannot pick up or place or capture pieces correctly > >very few Novag Robots still around today are not defective in some way >after all, the computer was released for sale in 1982 over two decades ago.. > >Steve > > > > > > > For fast experimental arms with >>full size board capability, the danger is to the careless user. For that >>reason, I wouldn't sell such an arm unless I had a signed liability waiver from >>the end user.
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