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Originally Posted by s_forbes
Half way through one of our qualifying matches, we found that we were driving with what seemed to be 50% of our normal drivetrain power. Pulled it out after the match to find this.
2 of our wheels were gummed up with field marking tape. One of the kit hex bearings broke as well, I suspect as a result of the immense belt load seen when driving with our clogged pulleys.
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We've had about 10 of these in our drivetrain break.
They're significantly weaker than last year's hex bearings.
We actually ran Finals-3 of Tech Valley with a bearing and a wheel missing. 5 wheel drive instead of 6.
We're in the process of taking the 2013 bearings from last year's practice bot off to put on this year's robot.
Also at Tech Valley, in our first qualification match, our catapult snapped in two a few shots after a bad dryfire in autonomous.