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Re: High torque that can be purchased.
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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa View Post
I'd be curious to see how you designed the disc brake. We remembered that we saw a few on other robots in 2008 and we designed a system this year using a Tolomatic pneumatic disc brake. Unfortunately we figured out in Q&A that it wasn't legal, since it wasn't "A pneumatic cylinder". It was a mechanism with a cylinder... But I digress.

So, did you design your own system with a ready cylinder or find some legal COTS alternative?

*By the way, Loved playing with you guys! Your team is always friendly, gracious and certainly a force to be reckoned with. Great showing this season!*
I assume that was directed at me or more particularly our team #2046. As the other poster stated it is a bicycle disc brake caliper. We made our own rotor out of aluminum to make it in a diameter that fit in the space we had, and to have a mounting pattern we could work with. To actuate it we used a 1" stroke cylinder that we made a custom piece to accept the ball on the end of the cable. Stop by our pits in St Louis for a close up look.

* Back at ya, we always love playing with the Skunks, we learned a lot of our ways from you guys.*