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Re: Three joint arm

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Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK View Post
While air shock look nicer than surgical tubing, the nice thing about surgical tubing is that you can tune it to the right strength. Unless you are trying to do something with a lot of power(ie. lifting your robot off the ground), usually surgical tubing is fine.
We actually used a gas strut to help raise the arm in our robot back last year and used one this year for our ball intake/bridge pull down. I would recommend looking into using one.
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