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Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK
Looks very nice. The only thing I'm concerned about is the hanger. We broke one of our pistons by getting only half of the hanger on the bar before we pulled up, bending one of the piston rods. What I would reccommend doing is a 254 like ball bearing setup so that the piston rods to not take any side load. While the current set up will work, you might find that your pistons get slower/stop working after a lot of matches.
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When this happens to us, we just bend the piston back... with our bare hands. For our offseason robot, though, we are considering some sort of pivot setup.
Andrew, looks sweet. Very judicious use of right angles. I'll be interested to see how your multi-disc auto works out.