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Re: Cushioning Your Hard Stop

We didn't use any of the rubber sheets, instead we used rubber bumpers. Here are the specific ones we used:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#93115k111/=qt6ao7

We have 4 of them on our catapult with 2 on each side that hits our hard stop. We we haven't had any issues with our frame deforming from the catapult firing as of yet, and we have shot a couple times.
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