Team 166, thank you very much for your offer and you will probably get a visit from us!
Thank you dave I contacted Lanier and they do not stock SMC but they are in the processes of finding out which Herion valve would be equivalent. While this does not help the borken one, we built a second robot and were looking for a place to buy similar solenoids to power our grabbers on that for practice.. A lot of the problem with us finding a team that has extras is that the double solenoid from last year is slightly different then the one from this year. What really stinks is that once we get to New haven we are going to have a hard time adding protection to our parts because we are so close to the weight limit. When we shipped the bot, two scales at our school read a pound and a half under, while when we got to LI the scale read a pound and a half over
so we had to take off some weight, we have no idea where else we can take off weight, hopefully we can safely take off a pound and add protection. I'm sure these solenoids aren't cheap and we wouoldn't want to make a habit of having to replace them.
If anyone else knows their team, or another team has extras (these year's kit had TWO double solenoids) if you could pass on this thread to them, or have them contact me (email and AIM is in user info) That would be a big help!
THANK YOU EVERYONE