Safety inspection regarding open wheel shooters?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

If you were to have a cover that has holes in it then if you were to put your finger in it your finger would get pinched and broken off (likely). If you were to put it in between the tread and outside of the guard you will get your finger pulling in and ripped off. I don't see how putting a guard on your shooter wheel will protect you at all.

You're joking, right? A guard with holes you can put a finger through is not a guard.

Another reason we took it off was because while testing our tread ripped off from the guard and jammed up the shooter wheel, which if I left the shooter turned on the motor could have possibly burned, and possibly started a fire.

Again, I hope you're joking. If the guard hadn't been there, that tread would have gone flying in an indeterminate direction. Wouldn't you agree that a fried motor is preferable to an injured student?

The only thing it would help with is stopping tread from flying out, which while on the field won't hit anyone because the field is enclosed.

The field netting is sized to stop frisbees, not nuts and bolts and chunks of wheel tread. Note that the robot is only running on the field for a few minutes at a time, while it's likely to see hours of use in the pit where no such netting exists anyway.