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Originally Posted by wun
We have just been testing the big yellow ball, and we found that it dosent roll straight. It seems like there is a weight in the side or something. Was this just because we got a bad ball, or is this a common problem other teams are experiencing?
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This is common. Similar balls were used in 1995 and 1996 and they had the same characteristics. In fact, if you told me that you had a ball that did roll straight (because it was perfectly round) I'd be pretty surprised.
If you look closely at the ball you can probably see that some sections of the skin are thicker than the others, which is what causes the problem (I think, anyway).
This isn't an engineering fair and demonstration, it's FRC. Defense is part of the game. You can't expect a good FRC team to just sit there and get clobbered by a full-court shooter; they're going to engineer a solution to the problem. - Kevin Sevcik [more] 
16-01-2004, 20:31
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