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Re: 254 telescoping arm design choices?

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Thanks, are there any changes you would make?
The belt attachment method for the retracting motion wasn't optimal, but the overall packaging constraints made it hard to do much else. Ideally everything was a bit bigger to make design, assembly and maintenance easier. It was a pretty frustrating thing to work on. I think we only had a few students and mentors who knew how to fully assemble it and repair it.
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