Originally Posted by
DaKineDatFolds
I have no clue on manufacturing bikes. I'm wondering though, wouldn't it be a good thing if the test bike was put together using the manufacturing equipment? OR... since it's just a test bike, would it be better by whipping up a test bike by hand (including welding)?
Also, in the parallel universe.......
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For sure the idea is to use production equipment to manufacture the test bike. However I don't see how small compromises would invalidate test results, such as welding say 95% of the frame by robot and doing the balance manually, in the interest of getting the test bike out for testing. Parallel task scheduling is critical right now as the money pile is dwindling every day.