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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Whoa. Those couplings are not meant to flex that far.
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Which is probably what led to this:
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Originally Posted by DinerKid
We did this for Lunacy and it was really cool when it was working however we had some massive issues with some couplings we were using (the tolerance needed to be tighter than we thought) which prevented us from ever getting to really show it off in competition.
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OTOH, FRC robots have such short lifespans it is kind of neat to see things used outside of their original purposes. (Obviously though, you've got to do some testing to demonstrate that it will actually perform)
"I don't care about what it was DESIGNED to do... I care what it CAN do." -Gene Kranz during Apollo 13