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Originally Posted by IndySam
If the problem is near the end of the shaft and you don't need the full 24" stroke you could use spacers on the shaft so it does not retract all the way into the cylinder and doesn't get into the bad part of the shaft.
You could also not hook up the retract end and cap the solenoid and use surgical tubing to retract the cylinder instead of air.
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Spacers sounds like a really good idea! Whether or not we can do that is dependent on how much we would need to leave deployed because the shaft goes right through our ball pickup, so if it's only a few inches we should be fine, but anything above 5 inches and we would probably have a problem. Thank you so much for all of your help!! We're meeting tomorrow, unfortunately the robot is already shipped, but we should be able to figure something out. I'm just happy that we at least have one that works, even if it doesn't work as well.
And to other teams, if you happen to have something like this lying around it would still be appreciated!