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Originally Posted by Ingar
I feel like I'm missing some huge detail; I can't seem to figure out the purpose of the second hole on the tensioner. Would anybody happen to know what the non-bushing containing hole is for?
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The hole itself doesn't serve a particular purpose (other than lightening, which is always good). But, by doing it this way, the tensioner blocks on both sides of the wheels are identical, thereby reducing the total number of unique parts in the robot. And minimizing the total number if unique parts we have (even if it doesn't reduce the total number of parts) is important to us, especially when we are having to send them out to our sponsors. Our sponsors have generally cited the number of unique parts as a more important factor than quantity when we talk to them about how many parts they can make for us.