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Re: Abandoning Floor Loading

Actually in 2007 our main means of acquiring a tube was from the feeder slot. We built an arm that had close to 300 degrees of rotation and a single joint so that our driver could always face the rack and the manipulator just had to flip the arm over and then back up to the feeder slot then flip it back over with the tube and then drive to the rack. Now, do we wish we could have built a claw that could have both scooped up tubes and grabbed them from the feeder slot, yes. But like many have said already, 2007 had alliance specific game pieces.
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