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Unread 09-01-2008, 12:08
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Re: controling extension on piston

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Originally Posted by tseres View Post
were you the team with that really huge long piston? i just remember seeing one that looked like 3 feet tall......

(i was there and at waterloo, too, team 1565)
Our ram was about a 10" stroke. 1.5" bore. We had nice black carpet ramps at GTR... we took them off for Kettering and NewJersey because they were heavy and ineffective. We also added a braking mechanism to it in the offseason to further dampen any oscillations. basically a piece of aluminum angle passing through aluminum square tube with a ram to pin it.