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Unread 13-02-2008, 23:34
AndrewSTA AndrewSTA is offline
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FRC #2574
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: St. Anthony
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Re: 2574 -95% finished

The motor with the spool drops the hoop down hopefully over the ball. She handles well, but that's on slippery floors where if you floor it (or plastic it?) it will spin the wheels a fair bit before it goes anywhere. This is unit #3. Unit 1 was too flimsy. Unit 2 was .5 inches too large (and is now our pit cart). Unit 3 is just right, although we're 27.75 inches long. I forgot to include our butchered IR board in its holding cell. We switched to a 1:1 gear ratio (without its fair share of problems, see motor mount picture), but I haven't been able to drive it yet with the new sprockets on.