[dodar]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

The discussion in this thread has me slightly worried, not about our design, but about the standard of "safe" varying between inspectors and between events. We've seen this in the past with things like chain guards or spinning wheel guards.

Is there a universal standard that can be set for the burden of proof that a mechanism is safe? Is it simply "make sure a positive action is needed to fire, and there is no chance of misfire" ? That's good enough for me.

What I would not want to happen is for a mechanism to be deemed illegal when an inspector's opinion is that it is not safe. That's not a good way to go about this. Thoughts?

Well when we had springs on our robot all we had to prove was that it was securely fashioned to the robot and that we had a steel wire running through it so that if it did unhook it wouldnt go flinging anywhere.