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Re: pic: 1557 3rd week progress

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Anticipate lots and lots of full speed multi-bot collisions, including getting pile-driven from two sides at once. The frame in the picture, or somethig wrapped around it, is going to need to be sturdy enough to survive the punishment.
The majority of impact during play should occur at the bumper level...this is a welded tubular frame, hopefully it will be okay.

"Gorrilla" might have used optimistic math; I'd guess the "spinning tube of death" will hold closer to 18-20 orbit balls at one time.
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