[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

Everyone really should have a safety lock available anyways. If you are going to be carrying the robot on or off the field with any mechanism "charged" and ready to fire, it needs a secure lock in place to ensure that any jostling doesn't result in someone getting kicked in the gut and dropping the robot on their foot. That is a simple safety practice that every team should have (I would even go so far as to suggest that inspectors should fail teams without it) that can easily prevent real injuries.

Which leads to a question for Al... If a team had such a safety lock that was removed from their robot after placing it on the field, could they use it during the sizing part of inspection, but remove it when weighing the robot? If the safety lock is a few pounds for something real sturdy, it could make a real difference when being weighed.

I've always told my team to release the air pressure before lifting the robot off the field. It makes the robot that much safer and doesn't take that much time.