Yep, we use surgical tubing too, to make it easier to move the ball cather to tip our robot over (we use it in the shock absorber too). BTW, how's it going on getting that green surgical tubing? :)

Stephen

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Hey alex and simon
hows it goin

stephen - you guys use surgical tubing? I looked your whole robot over and didn't see it. I wouldn't have thought. it's wonderful stuff, though, isn't it? our wing team loves it. they used as much as they could get away with. enjoy that crew shirt there, buddy

aman - trying to get your post count up?

Well, it's in hard to see spaces. One "loop" of it is on the 'belly' of the robot, holding the shock absorber to the frame. The other is on the bottom side of the trunnions to hold the ball catcher down.

Stephen

P.S. Oh, and I will definitely enjoy my crew shirt! I'm gonna wear it to all our team meetings, and maybe to the team party.

dont we have some on the basket too????

Surgical Tubing
 

That stuff is the greatest except it can really hurt u to. Since there is a lot of stress on the tubing on our wings, it can be very dangerous. One of our adults got hit by one when trying to mount it on and it slipped in his hand causing a huge welt on his stomach which was the size of his hand!

PS: Simon: i saw u guys online and wanted to say hi THATS ALL! :-)

Yes, how could I forget? To allow our basket to go overcenter, thus dumping all the balls out, we use surgical tubing to make it easier on the motors to pull the basket back up.

Stephen