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Originally Posted by MrForbes
If you want a nice variety of sizes and forces, try a source such as McMaster-Carr. for gas springs. The ones used in cars are a small subset of the ones that are available. We've used McM gas springs for several things over the years on our robots, they're very helpful to reduce the load on arm drive motors, for example.
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Great idea to reduce the arm-drive motor load. Thank you. We will be keeping that in mind for future reference. For this season, we will be using bungee cords from Menard's.
The most important piece of advice I can give is have someone assigned to pay attention to the batteries. You cannot imagine how many teams end up saying "I thought you were charging the batteries..." - RoboMom [more] 
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