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Unread 07-03-2007, 00:57
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Re: Arms

We had a lot of success with pneumatics on our grabber in 2005 (which was extremely heavy and coupled with a fairly robust elevator). Admittedly, we had to cheesehole off about 10 pounds because of the extra weight from the pneumatics, but it worked really nicely.

We were originally going to use pneumatics on this year's grabber as well, but our jointed arm couldn't handle the torque caused by the piston on the end so we switched to a globe motor.
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