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Originally Posted by Greg Needel
Pneumatic cylinders directly acting on a plate with a short throw will be fine, no reason to over complicate it with a linkage.
Our brake last year was 3x 1" pancake cylinders all attached to a 20x14 plate covered in rough top. Worked great without ever bending the rod on a cylinder.
I will say that you should consider pancake cylinders instead of regular ones from a packaging standpoint they are much nicer for this kind of application.
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I'd still use some kind of linkage. It doesn't add that much complexity, and for something where the failure mode is being stuck for the rest of the match, you want a lot of safety.