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Originally Posted by evanperryg

Even if it didn't work, it looks pretty cool... how was it supposed to work, anyway?

I was just a little freshman at the time, so I wasn't majorly involved in the design, but basically we would extend our intake (I think we call it a power head) which starts vertical via pneumatic cylinders. We run the rollers as we drive over the disks, and they get sucked in through an opening in the front of the frame. Then a series of "insert magic here" rollers push the disks into the bottom opening of the helix where there is a vertical rotating spindle with brushes in the center that spin the disks up the helix which are then deposited in our custom high tech Home Depot bucket hopper.

I'm sure that had we had more time to test and develop it, would have worked well, but our time was very limited that year since our sheet metal sponsor was really slow in getting us our metal. It kind of costs us the season

The fancy tall orange and blue structure in the back was supposed to be a lifting mechanism which we also had to throw out for time interests