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Originally Posted by Syncopation
217 (the ever-powerful ThunderChickens) impressed everyone with their "slam dunks": they (from what I saw) could disengage their arm so that the force from hitting the overpass flipped the arm backwards so they could drive under the overpass safely (a dog gear or something like that was my guess - never got the chance to ask them myself). Probably not much help for you, since it doesn't look like you guys can rotate the arm past vertical to the back, but just a thought. Might want to watch out for that.
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Not to hijack the thread, but I just wanted to make a note here. Although we originally had a dog gear clutch designed in the arm gearbox (good guess haha), we found it was easier to just time a simultaneous release the ball + stop the drive momentarily + start pulling back the arms. I'm sure that after practice 330 will adopt a similar strategy.
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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
We can pick ourselves up from any direction we might fall, using either the herder, the arm, or both.
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Tip coming from someone who did just that at STL - the crowd will looovvve it
We had people coming up to us all day, "that was soo cool how you picked yourselves up" etc.