[Steve W]

MrBasse has a point. With the mechanisms on the robot for today's game there are just as much if not more chance of people getting hurt. Surgical tubing can cause great hurt when attached to metal parts. On my teams robot there are 4 springs, 2x60lb and 2x90lb. That's 300lb force on the arm. I have seen and inspected even stronger mechanisms.

There are many tools that we use that are dangerous. This does not stop us from using them. We must take precautions and make sure safety is prime in our thoughts, second nature if you will. If we find that a saw blade breaks and has issues we don't continue to use those blades we find better quality ones. The same would go for pneumatics, tanks prove to have problems, find better. I am all for safety and agree we must be doing something but banning is not the issue.

It's Tuesday, maybe we will see something from FIRST today. After all, there are a lot of bright minds at FIRST that want the best for the students.