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Re: Rubber Hose on the Spider Feet?!

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Originally Posted by dfukuba View Post
I wanted to ask you guys who have built a field with the stingers, how hard is it to flex the stinger? our teams arm is just long enough that we will still hit the stinger when putting the tube on. It looks like it is pretty malleable, but i don't know first hand. We will get some of this stuff at some point, i just want to know if it will be a problem or not.

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--Dan
It's not hard (requires very little force to bend), but it isn't paper either. Simply throwing a tube at the stinger won't bend it, you will actually have to push it a little.

For us the stinger seems to make it harder to get tubes off then it is to get them on.
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