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Originally Posted by cbale2000
I don't recall FIRST ever banning them, just strongly recommending they be changed and offering replacements. Our team was offered replacements for our white tanks on our robot at all 3 of our competitions this season, but we declined since the new tanks cannot be capped off at one end like the white tanks can be (and the layout of our pneumatic system required the tanks to be capped off on one end due to their positioning on the robot). The inspectors never had any problem with this.
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FYI, you can make and "end cap" on the black tanks by taking a short length of pneumatic tubing, folding it over on itself, ziptying it together, and sticking it in the NPT port of the tank. Worked well for us, and didn't leak in the slightest. Plus, it's super cheap.