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Re: Flexible Frame & Chassi

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Originally Posted by iCurtis View Post
While not applicable this year, BERT 133 built one in 2008 to play Overdrive. It worked really well throughout practice actually, but to meet weight they needed to replace the steel gears that did the actuating with aluminum, and the aluminum had a nasty habit of shearing mid match. I'll see if I can track down some pictures from BAE that year.
There are likely pictures of it somewhere in this archive, but it's a lot of pictures to look through, so it's left as an exercise to the reader.

Here's their first match at BAE in 2008. The camera moves quite a bit, but there's a little bit of video of them turning (particularly at about 1:10).
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