Team 319 - Single Mechanism Collect and Throw

[dodar]

Originally Posted by rwkling1

This is at least what my mentors told me. Using a spring is fine by the standards of the rules, but they're not necessarily liked by safety inspectors, depending on the size. Small ones are fine, but when you get large and strong springs it becomes questionable.

We used them back in 2010 and had no problems.

[rwkling1]

Originally Posted by dodar

We used them back in 2010 and had no problems.

How large and strong were they?

[dodar]

Originally Posted by rwkling1

How large and strong were they?

This is the best photo I could find showing the size of springs we used. They were pretty huge. At full stroke, we could kick the ball the length of the field and hit the mid-point of the alliance station back in 2010.