[EricH]

Originally Posted by joshsmithers

We've never used it, but it is notorious for being either the the most useful or useless thing in the KOP. Come to think of it, didn't 330 use it in 2007 inside their arm to activate their claw?

EDIT: Nevermind, that was pneumatically actuated.

330 hasn't used one on a competition robot since 2002. Then they used two small ones...and come to think of it I'm not even quite sure they were leadscrews. I do know they came out of a gearbox that we haven't gotten since then.

The leadscrew's only function other than wasting time is to turn rotational motion into linear motion. While it is theoretically possible to go the other way, reality wins and it's pretty hard to do so.