Nightmare Repairs At Competition

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Paging Rich Kressly, Chuck Glick, or Mike Williams. I'd want someone more involved with the actual repair to tell the story of how they fixed our claw in 2008 after it broke during the last qualification match before we had to be on the field for QF1-1 as the #8 alliance captain.

I remember this, walking around the pits in Philly 2008 and seeing the arm split in half. If I recall, you guys got it completely replaced with the spare in time to have a fully functional robot in the first quarterfinals match. It was quite impressive.