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Originally Posted by Gregor
No open wheeled shooters had to be covered at FLR (us included), from what I observed.
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you are correct Gregor. We never had to put a shirld on ours. In fact we use to have a shield over it but took it off because there were more pinch points with the shield. If you just have a wheel then you are less likely to get hurt, if you have a shield over it you have 10X more pinch points. If you were to put your finger (please don't do this!) into the shooter wheel at full speed your finger is likely to just bounce away, maybe get scraped. you may get your finger turned around the wheel a few times (as long as you don't have something across the wheel stopping your finger). If you were to have a cover that has holes in it then if you were to put your finger in it your finger would get pinched and broken off (likely). If you were to put it in between the tread and outside of the guard you will get your finger pulling in and ripped off. I don't see how putting a guard on your shooter wheel will protect you at all. Another reason we took it off was because while testing our tread ripped off from the guard and jammed up the shooter wheel, which if I left the shooter turned on the motor could have possibly burned, and possibly started a fire.
I don't see how putting a guard on can possibly make the shooter wheel safer... The only thing it would help with is stopping tread from flying out, which while on the field won't hit anyone because the field is enclosed.