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Originally Posted by DoctorMagazine
Our team was considering using surgical tubing instead of polycord to pick up balls. Would this work?
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Yeah I think it will. We used surgical tubing on our 2009 robot. The great thing about surgical tubing is its ability to stretch a lot which makes it pretty easy to work with because you don't have to cut it very precisely but it is tough to join the ends together. We used a plastic version of the McMaster connector and added some super glue. The bad thing about surgical tubing is that it did seem to wear out quite a bit and I think we had to replace it once at each event we attended.
We are going to try out some solid 1/4" Polycord this year. It looks like great stuff. I just hope that it lives up to its acclaim.