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Re: Average Feet per Second

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Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin
I was referring to the "overdrive" gear, which we didn't use until late in the season. It was theoretically 13 FPS. In practice it was less than that, as we found when we clocked it in the 10-11 FPS range in some testing last summer.
Maybe those lost 2-3 fps were spent compensating for driving your casters backwards

(I'm just teasing Jeff - nothing like a good technical debate).
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