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Re: pic: Beachbot 2008

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Originally Posted by GeeForce View Post
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.
That's exactly what we want to do, but it does take practice

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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.
We got entangled and pulled over in the elims at LA in 2005, and got back up. It definitely is a crowd pleaser. We'd rather avoid that happening, however ;-)
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