[Scott Morgan]

the center goal we lifted was velcroed down
it was awesome it was especialy funny watching the referees reactions to this

our arm has alot of torque because it is powered by a vandoor motor turning a 1.5 inch diameter spool pulling a cable attached to a pulley at the top of the upright that the arm is attached to goes down to another pulley 1.5 feet out on the arm and reaturns to the upright where it is anchored this system offers alot of torque
not as much as the beastly arm i'm designing for next year though

the spool came out of an old wooden 4x4 from my garage it was interesting to make because the only power tools our team actualy has are some hand drills and a jigsaw, however my dad was kind enough to lend our team his drill press which we used as a lathe to make the spool
first i handsawed the corners off the 4x4 making it into a octagon which is much easier to lath
then we stuck a threaded rod through the block put a nut on each end and stuck it in the drill chuck
then we put a ball bearing aroung the bottom of the rod as we raised the drill table so the bottum of the rod went through the hole in the center
instant lathe