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Unread 10-01-2011, 04:37
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Re: Rack 'n' Roll Manipulators
A big mahalo to all of you for sharing your thoughts on this topic.

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Originally Posted by Trent B View Post
This is worth a perusing as well if you can find a copy at a library or find someone who you can borrow it from.
http://www.amazon.com/FIRST-Robots-R.../dp/1592534112
There's a lot of great info in this book. A couple of the designs (Teams 1987 and 386) used vacuums to pick up the tubes. Does anyone recall how well these worked? I would think that if they got bumped hard that they would drop the tube.

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ight=best+tube
check out these threads for information.
Wow...lots of good designs mentioned here. Going to take me a while to look up all of these.