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Re: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad

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I must say our old team, 2645, used set screws all the time with no problems, we used mechanum wheels, a scissor lift, and a cable winch. All on one robot with no problems except a broken logitech controller. One of those examples of engineering gone right.
A lot of things mentioned in this thread aren't mechanically wrong, they're just not the best way to do things (for various reasons). A robot with mecanum wheels and a scissor lift has no reason it couldn't be mechanically reliable all season, it's just not likely to keep up with a more optimal design.