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Re: Team 4564's Tape Measure Climber

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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
With the heavy duty type tape measures, you can extend it about 12ft without it bending even with a decent weighted hook on the end.
We have a tape measure climber as one of the lift versions we made this season, but it never made it on our final robot.
Even under driver movements, it won't bend?

I'm just imagining a lot of teams having problems of lining up without the tape bending, but I guess a better strategy is to slam into the tower all the way up the batter and then extend.
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