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Re: Destroyed Disks

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Originally Posted by jijiglobe View Post
Okay... our robot has two shooter wheels. During that match, one of the shooter wheels was broken. The disk was pushed into the shooter but jammed up because the wheel's gearbox was jammed. The disk, however, remained in contact with the working shooter wheel and both the wheel and the disk were melted from friction. We have the disk pinned to our wall.
We melted about a dozed disks during our testing. We continued using them as we figured that they would continue to be used at competitions.

We did manage to destroy one disk at Midwest, and they took it out of play. I'm not sure where it ended up though.
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