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Unread 03-02-2014, 00:21
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FTC 3507 Robo Theosis -- FRC 3135
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Re: RAIL GUN: linear slide ram shooter

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Originally Posted by Patrick Flynn View Post
One thing I'm going to forewarn here, from experience those 80-20 sliders will wear, and once they do nothing will want to slide at all. Also if that 80-20 ends to the slightest bit bent sliding will be difficult if not impossible Having the ability to quickly replace those sliders would be a design consideration you may want to look at.

Other than that design looks awesome, can't wait to see more of it
Yeah, thanks for the heads up, we already have spares made to cover that issue. This was one reason we are being careful to keep all net forces on the sliders as near to axial as possible, with minimum torque being carried by nylon contact area. Still some improvements needed in that regard.

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