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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
That has to be the biggest issue I have seen in FIRST for years. It's just not acceptable anymore. The issue coming from the Curie field is that the little metal loops that go around the pole were bent. This caused the lexan to extend into the field more then usual. I went around on day 2 and placed pieces of tape to the top of the bar. That solved a lot of the problems of a robot just skimming the gate and having it glide down the rail. I thought about having a channel for the lexan to sit in. SO that gets rid of the loops that get bent easily and does not allow the lexan to slide down the rails.
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Velcro each end of the lexan and change the metal loops to a gate latch type of device? That should keep it from "bouncing off" when the rail is hit by a robot, and it should keep it from "sliding" in any direction when skimmed by a robot.
We're a bunch of engineers... we ought to be able to fix this.