Worst you've seen to the Defenses?

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Originally Posted by Jalerre

We had a fun match at SMR.

That is impressive

I'd say some of the longest lasting damage I encountered was from our teams practice drawbridge this year. It was not built out of wood, so the worst we could do to it was pop the string out of the pulleys. It, however, would bind up something terrible. To cope with it, we had to gear the arms very high, and precisely time the lift. We shredded so many gears on that thing. We get to the practice field at the first competition and just have to bump it up lightly with our arm....

That overgearing plagued us most of the season, and we spent finals of our first event playing defense because the gearing failed again Entirely due to faults in the design, we definitely should have used sprockets and chain or belts and pulleys, because at that torque any sharp shock or stall could break the system (usually this happened with the cheval). Hindsight is 20/20

My brother (our secondary driver) started wearing one of the shredded gears as a necklace.