[Vogel648]

Honestly, looking at your boom at competition and even before then when scouting, I said that it looked kind of flimsy, with as far as I could tell only a couple of small pieces near the end. I'm not trying to say there was a major design flaw, but to me that arm should have had more pieces re-enforcing it, especially since they were just tubes an not re-enforced pieces like the extruded aluminum our team uses. Overall, even to pulling stress like you're talking about, the amount of material used could have been far greater, but was likely given up to save weight. This allowed your robot to be very versitile, but not as robust.