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Originally Posted by fox46
This is still a highschool competition and these machines are being built by highschool students, not engineers.... or at least thats how it should be.
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That's debatable. If you have an engineering mentor who understands how to design this stuff, that mentor should be helping the students figure out how to make a workable design--that includes making sure the parts are strong enough for the application.
I realize that many (most?) teams don't have a mechanical engineer helping them, the result is that we kind of need to have indestructible parts available. That's a tall order.