Team 3309 Presents: Gateway

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

If you have the weight, you may want to consider adding some sort of protection or shielding for those intake deployment cylinders. 1712 has a similar set-up, and we noticed during practice that a direct hit from a flying ball can cause the piston rods to bend. Granted, we're using 3/4" bore cylinders, they're more exposed, and it was first noticed during catching practice (and later repeated during aerial inbounding practice). With your larger bore (1 1/4"??), utlization differences, and more structural elements near the cylinder the risk may be less for you than it was for us. However, we added some aluminum bars above ours to remove the risk of having our intake get stuck in the deployed position because of a bent piston rod.

I think these are 1-1/8", yeah we been slugging balls at the practice bot, so far its been good but we bought 4 more spares just in case. We are running the comp bot with a secondary regulator for these cylinders, 60 psi is overkill.