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Originally Posted by ttldomination
How was the durability of the pads on this? Did you notice that the tower was swaying when all the way up high?
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The ecoslide pads are beastly, and hold together very, very well -- I had forgotten that we didn't even use the carriages on Shiela, just the pads (screwed into the second stage of the lift, inserted into the first stage, which was the Bosch stuff). The elevator we made consisted of two rails spaced almost to the sides of the robot, stiffened with a few small crossbeams made of 1/2" L aluminum. It didn't sway.
http://www.team1551.org/Sheila2_400x600.jpg
Our robot lift in Breakaway used the ecoslide carriage and lifted our whole robot no problem over and over again -- it didn't sway because it had little weight up top: it was just used to lift a hook, and then drew down to lift the whole robot.