2014 Game Ball Damage

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by jee7s

While building a replica of one of the Robot in Three Days pickup mechanisms, our team popped our game ball. Now, I wasn't there to witness it, but I did see the aftermath. Our students were using the same wheels as the Ri3d example (AndyMark white plastic treaded wheels am-0940 or similar) and they say they were spinning them a little too fast. Based on what I saw, the edge of the treaded wheel caught the fabric and tore it, then it tore through the ball. It wasn't a huge hole, maybe 3/4" or so. But any hole deflates the ball, right?.

This happened to us yesterday too, in a very similar situation . Off to the nearby hardware shop to pickup a bicycle wheel repair kit while waiting for our order of additional balls to arrive!