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Re: Catastrophe...
Not to get too far off topic, but I was thinking of a story that was kind of funny. Call my old team (151) crazy, but in the 2001 UTC Reginal we found out we had a nagging leak in our pneumatic system. So what did we do? Well that year we had all of our electronics mounted to the superstructure of our robot, and just the pneumatics (minus the solenoids) in the "tub" of our chassis. So we filled the entire "tub" of our robot with water and used that to check for our leaks, turned out we had used a "tee" fitting with no plug so the air was just escaping, but you should've seen the looks on peoples faces when we were pouring buckets of water in the robot.
Back to the topic at hand, If you find out you've got rusty parts (gears, sprockets) from the water, immerse the parts in a tub of coke (yes, aside from mythbusters I've done this) and let them marinate for about an hour or so. The soda will dissolve the rust, and clean the metal. HOWEVER the parts will be extremely sticky, so after the rust is removed immerse the parts again in isopropyl alcohol to clean them.
I hope you guys succeed from this disaster! You've got my support!
~Greg
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