Reducing Friction in Shooter

[Dr.Gusta]

My team used a winch based shooter using sergical tubing. A VEX 2 speed gearbox would pull back the tubing then pneumaticly shifts into a neutral gear (neutral gear was created by removing the "balls" form the high speed stage. The issue we are having is it takes about 14lbs to un spool the rope while in the neutral gear this greatly reduces our acceleration on the shooter. Oh and just to let you know we bagged our electronics and drive base but held back our manipulator mechanism.