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Re: Risk of the Lift?

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Originally Posted by 3@G13_1388 View Post
It is almost going to be impossible to use a lift to elevate your alliance's robots. It is going to be impossible because pneumanic cylinders are not going to give enough force to exert a lifting device.

im pretty sure that the pneumatic cylinders come in larger sizes than they gave us so i think it will be possible to lift other robots with a lift. and i thin the largest size is a 2 inch cylinder.
In 2004 team 1141 had 4 pneumatic cylinders (one at each corner of the robot) that lifted them 1 ft so that their 9ft arm could grapple onto the bar. This allowed them to make it geometrically impossible for the robot to not be high enough. So the stock pneumatics CAN lift a robot.