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Originally Posted by pfreivald
Your arm seems pretty rickety, especially for the weight it is trying to support. Forgive the paint-CAD, but you can add a lot of rigidity to a thin arm with some supports and steel cable, while adding almost negligible weight.
(Also, I agree with the neutral balance suggestions. We're using a four-start screw and a FP motor on a 64:1 BB for our lift, and we can stop it anywhere we want and it just stays there... It helps that we can lift the arm from behind the pivot with one finger!)
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Sorry for the double, but I do like that alottttt.
The only problem is that I can't really think of a way to do it, we only have about a half inch from the top of the sprocket to the height limit, and the same with to the back of the robot