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Re: Hanging robots and <G31>

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Look below the ball return in the official drawings. There's another bar there, below the ball return. If you can avoid hitting ball return elements while hanging on that, you can hang on any side of the tower.
If you look at section "6.2.4 The TOWERS" of the manual, and the associated picture of the ball return attaching to the towers you see the following

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The TOWER is designed to support the weight of several ROBOTS. The RETURN BARS are the two horizontal bars at the top of the rear of the TOWER (the side nearest the ALLIANCE WALL). The RETURN BARS support the lower end of the BALL RETURN and are covered in black tape.
This implies that both the upper and lower bar are "no-touch" areas, because they are both covered in black tape.