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Unread 05-04-2012, 23:41
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Re: The afterthought bridge manipulator

what I would do is pair your window motors in a winch and pull down the arm via cable. that's what we're doing and it works great. I spend the first day of our regional perfecting the 3d 4 bar inverted ramp we had designed, only to run into problems. Instead I put together the winch arm design in a total of half an hour. It is super reliable and we can easily crush balls caught under the bridge.