What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?

[otherguy]

In 2012 at Beantown Blitz one of our alliance partners had issues with chain popping off on their drive train during eliminations.

As a last ditch effort we got our bulkiest zip ties and made an awesome chain tensioner by wrapping one the around the chain loop. Then two more ties attaching the tensioner off to each side of the parallel plates of the drivetrain (to keep everything vertically and horizontally centered). It actually worked surprisingly well. I can't find event results or videos of finals. But I'm pretty sure we went through multiple matches and finals in that configuration.

Definitely one to keep in your back pocket.



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