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Originally Posted by Bill_B
Ellie Vader? Darth's long lost sister in the Dark Side Chronicles?  |
haha you are pronouncing it wrong. its a compound word between Elevator and Vader. The reasoning behind this is our ball collector mechanism works a little like an elevator bringing the balls off the ground and then dropping them in the hopper.
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Originally Posted by remulasce
Careful with those bumpers. I know they're not finished yet but make sure you realize you are currently in violation of [R31]:
Look in the manual under that rule, there's a diagram of what is allowed and what is not. Your bumpers appear to be identical to the "NOT OK" diagram. Essentially, you need to fill in the gaps at the corners. It's pretty easy, just glue/double-stick-tape/ziptie a small piece of noodle, with hole looking up, to the edge of one of your bumpers on all sides. Again, look at the diagram. The inspector might let it slide for a rookie team, but I wouldn't count on it, and since you haven't put on the fabric yet it should be an easy fix right now.
Make sure you test drive it on carpet! That's where you'll be competing, and sometimes it happens that rookies(and veterans) forget to do so until the first match, only to find out they have too much lateral traction and they can't turn. Again, much easier to fix now than at competition, you usually just replace the frontmost, backmost, or all wheels with ones with less traction. If you dropped the center, you should be fine.
EDIT: If need be, replace the non-powered wheels first.
All in all, looking really good- you both move, AND can score!
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Yeah we noticed the problem with our bumpers after we put them on and are working on making the corners rounded. Thanks for the reminder though!
And yeah I was going to test it out on carpet tomorrow just to make sure we can turn. Our forward wheels are omniwheels and we have the center wheels dropped so we should be ok I think.