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Re: helix

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Originally Posted by gorrilla View Post
If you have any, try using the pnuematic tubing that comes in FRC kit, it works great, and once balls get to the top of your helix, they bend so your helix-tube can keep rotating.

this worked great for out 2009 lunacy robot,



ps. If you need them to be stifffer, just shove zip-ties inside the pnuematic tubes.
we have no sort of pnuematic tubing at all so that was a great idea and we did see a lot of that in FRC but that is not an option for us