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Re: Your theory vs. your capability
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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
* Our mechanism appears to be bullet-proof, as we went through a couple of hours of driving on Saturday without a failure (this is what you get by allowing a 4x safety factor on your torque calculations).
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Lucky you.

We allowed a 20% margin of error on one joint of the arm and it turned out to still be too weak.



I think we worked a fix though.

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