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Re: pic: 2011 Team 498 Robot

Out of curiosity, have you done some tests with the window motors? They have a nasty tendency to lose torque quickly when they warm up, and their plastic worm gears tear apart quite readily. We used one to move our 36 inch arm last year and it broke several times.
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