Destroyed Disks

[jijiglobe]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

...how?

Okay... our robot has two shooter wheels. During that match, one of the shooter wheels was broken. The disk was pushed into the shooter but jammed up because the wheel's gearbox was jammed. The disk, however, remained in contact with the working shooter wheel and both the wheel and the disk were melted from friction. We have the disk pinned to our wall.

[fb39ca4]

Originally Posted by jijiglobe

Okay... our robot has two shooter wheels. During that match, one of the shooter wheels was broken. The disk was pushed into the shooter but jammed up because the wheel's gearbox was jammed. The disk, however, remained in contact with the working shooter wheel and both the wheel and the disk were melted from friction. We have the disk pinned to our wall.

Cool. You have any pics?

[avanboekel]

Originally Posted by jijiglobe

Okay... our robot has two shooter wheels. During that match, one of the shooter wheels was broken. The disk was pushed into the shooter but jammed up because the wheel's gearbox was jammed. The disk, however, remained in contact with the working shooter wheel and both the wheel and the disk were melted from friction. We have the disk pinned to our wall.

We melted about a dozed disks during our testing. We continued using them as we figured that they would continue to be used at competitions.

We did manage to destroy one disk at Midwest, and they took it out of play. I'm not sure where it ended up though.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by jijiglobe

Okay... our robot has two shooter wheels. During that match, one of the shooter wheels was broken. The disk was pushed into the shooter but jammed up because the wheel's gearbox was jammed. The disk, however, remained in contact with the working shooter wheel and both the wheel and the disk were melted from friction. We have the disk pinned to our wall.

We have similar shooter. We had two sets of wheels that create a v-groove that holds the Frisbee really well. During the beginning of Friday matches we were having issues with our jags that controlled the shooter. So during autonomous and half of the driver controlled period one set of wheels was running at full speed with a Frisbee stuck rubbing against it.

[Roger]

Ah, yes, a very distinctive smell, the melting of discs. We got a fresh box of them late in the season, put them in the robot, and of course one got stuck, before it even got shot out once! It was an ugly tableau....

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I had several FTAs show me damaged disk and sent me to the team to ask them to correct the problem. Some events had more disks mangled than others.