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Unread 07-02-2017, 10:58
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Re: Fuel stuck in front of lift.

We popped our prototype gear handler and ball intake onto an old chassis with bumpers and dumped a hoppers worth of fuel right around our airship. It was very helpful to check this early on. We learned that fuel in front of the airship isn't much of a problem to begin with, and definitely not with an intake system. Even without the intake, fuel like to move out of the way, and if they don't, a quick twitch of the controls clears them.

We also learned that a fuel will deform substantially from getting caught between bumpers and airship/wall. We used a few of those deformed fuel in our high goal prototype and learned they can be a problem. They pop back out eventually, though.
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