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Re: Team 254 Presents: Dropshot Technical Binder 2016

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Thanks for the information. It is always great to see how elite teams iterate their designs.

On the subject of iterations, why did you guys go away from gas shocks in the hanger.
Initially, the idea of utilizing gas shocks as the means to scale the tower after time had ended seemed like a feasible idea in CAD. When it came to assembling them on the hanger however, we encountered the issue of both gas shocks releasing at different times as was evident in a test which consequently bent the hanger weldment. This problem could have either been attributed to a difference in the force exerted by each gas shock or a difference in force exerted by the pistons with a spring coiled around the rod that were used to compress the gas shocks. We knew that a winch gearbox was both a proven and feasible option, and thus we decided to implement it following SVR.

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