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Re: ARM GEARING ON ROBOT

I won't give everything away yet because when people see what we did I think a lot of teams will copy it next year. I will say we scared people at the UTC scrimmage and those who saw our robot sitting in the pits and asked "What size chain is that?". We used No. 40 for good reason. For those of you at The UTC NE regional or Philly regional stop by and we'll show you what we did. The entire assembly was designed and built in an afternoon using only 1 machined part. Oh and we're using the 6V FPs. they barely even get strained lifting 3 tetra's.

Our motto on arm design is "Too much is just enough, so drive straight beyond overkill just to make sure."

If I can find a good picture I'll post it after the UTC New England regional.