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Originally Posted by Chris is me
This is a pretty cool club. Are you accepting applications? We might be ready to file ours around Week 7.
Just curious - how many of you are actually using the tape measure as the device supporting the weight of your robot, versus using it just as a hook deployer? My gut says the latter is better.
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We're not doing anything like this for FRC, so I can't speak to these cases, but this fall our two FTC teams discovered that the former does not work well, even for smaller robots. The metal 'tape' ended up breaking off from the spools they were attached to, and the teams switched to a different material after their first two events.
Our two MidKnight Magic teams broke so many tape measures that the Inventors didn't have any left in our shop by the time build season came around. I think they ended up replacing the tapes at least 2 or 3 times an event.
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