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Originally Posted by DeepWater
Madison,
The lift looks really nice. We have been mocking up a couple of different similar designs using gas shocks and I have a couple of questions. First, in your design what keeps the two tall pieces of channel from just bending over? Second, (this is more of a rules interpretation question) are you placing any material between the bottom two pieces of metal (channel? Box tube?) and the carpet? I ask only because we are wondering if we need to so ast to not violate <R34> (the no metal touching carpet rule). I guess it depends on what is meant by a "traction device".
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Not on 488, but on my old team 824 we used all metal ball casters and they allowed it despite the metal contact with the ground. So it seems that normal forces against the ground should be okay, at least by that inspection.