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Re: Octomecanum Shifting Question

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Originally Posted by CENTURION View Post
Are you referring to bending that would be caused by robot-on-robot impacts?

I've never built one, but in the designs that I've seen, the pneumatic cylinder would be allowed to rotate at the blind end, so that as it extends, the cylinder will rotate so that the force always goes along it's axis.
I am more concerned how people support the cylinder when it is connected to the shifting parts. What I have seen is that there is no support but I wanted to find out if that was true or if I was missing something.
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