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I believe you have located their bolts.

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Actually, I don't think that is a photoshop artifact. I think it is just an illusion of the geometry, and the spacer under the polycarb makes the viewing angle insufficient to see the drivetrain tube.

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I'm curious where you got the belts for the elevator. I had trouble finding belts that long.

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Open ended GT2 or GT3 belts from sdp sI most likely.

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Not sure where they got them, but I know SDP-SI will quote you custom belt lengths (and pulley sizes) if you ask. Pulleys typically get a tooling charge tacked on if I remember correctly though.

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It's weird, because the entire length of tubing is very awkward and out of place, especially for 254. Its routed on the outside of the box tube, while we can clearly see more tube on the inside, it flows over the electronics, most the zipties connecting the 2 strands together are not cut at the tips, there is an out of place zip-tie on the middle-right cross member, and all the right intake plumbing is not facing the camera.

Considering all of that, I would say it isn't a stray tube for a magic bin grabber, like Andrew may or may not have been implying. It looks like the intake was probably taken off for maintenance reasons and quickly put on for the purpose of a photo shoot, along with all the pneumatic plumbing.



All that being said, it looks like another world championship winner, and I can't wait to see it work!

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"Size Hella Tall"

Looks great, reminds me of 3663's robot (only bluer and with an claw at the top)

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Is it just me, or does it look like something is missing here? It just seems weird that they would have mounting holes here and the intake mount hangs over the front of the drive frame.

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Perhaps extending the tubing all the way out under the intake pivot mount would have caused clearance issues with the scoring platform. They might have also needed better access to the pivot mount for the intake there compared to if that tube was there under it in the way.

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I wonder if those ingestor wheels are soft like the McMaster drive rollers, or just rubber sheet?

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Ah, this explains why their open ended belts were so out of stock. Took me three hours of clicking to find two closed belts long enough to do what we needed, ha.

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jnicho15, I believe that their intake rollers are something like this from McMaster. I remember something about this stuff on their last year's robot.
You can use compressed air to slip it on the roller, and you don't even have to rivet/glue it, it simply sticks in place.

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It would also appear as though their RC grabber can extend outwards. Step can grabber?

EDIT: Never mind, I think that's just for picking up RC that have been tipped over (a slick addition nonetheless).

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I am pretty sure what they are using is actually in fact just large surgical tubing slipped on using alcohol. At least I think..

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