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Originally Posted by Snowbotics
My team has personally experimented with suction in the 2007 game and we were met with great disappointment and in the end failure to that idea.
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Team 2502 has a mentor that is a salesman at a pneumatics company and deals with all sorts of pneumatics and industrial extruded materials.
He brought in his kit of vacuum products with all assortment of cups (standard to weird shaped ones) and all sorts of valves and vacuum modules and items of that nature and we tried everything. It held on to the tubes REALLY well and even held tightly when shook... But once we put our hand to one of the father places of the tube and pushed it, it just popped right off.
Also, air consumption, we thought, would be an issue to keep the seal tight for the entire 2 minutes.
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