Latex Tubing
 

When our team was looking through our kit of parts, we found some latex tubing. Last year, the tubing was in the kit too, and we were at a loss for what it was intended for. Besides being a on pulley or some kind of spring, are there any obvious uses for the tubing? It's been on everyone on my team's mind. Thanks.

Re: Latex Tubing
 

It's typically used a giant elastic band.

Re: Latex Tubing
 

It's more commonly known around these parts as "Surgical Tubing".

Re: Latex Tubing
 

and its the most awesome build material ever.

almost all of 1075's robots have used it for something.

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I can't think of a year when we didn't use some.

Spring, minibot tread, gripper for game pieces, encoder coupler....

Re: Latex Tubing
 

I've used it for all of those reasons as well.
Note: it does fly off wheels if you spin them at 6,000RPM. It grips the discs pretty well though. The inside is better than the outside.

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ya we use surgical tubing on our rollers in the past to help pull in the ball in 2010

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Cleaning it with rubbing alcohol restores the grippyness real well, too.

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Passive assistance to reduce mechanism loading:
http://blog.iamjvn.com/2011/02/jvn-b...m-loading.html
"Helps your motor do the work faster, while drawing less current."

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Thanks everyone! I think we're just using ours as a glorified rubberband at the moment.