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Originally Posted by Scoutin' Master
People from team 121 may remember me as the annoying girl trying to cue you for the match right after the one where your robot's arm broke.  Just out of curiosity, I was wondering how it broke. |
Yeah a combination of the weight of our arm while full with pucks and resistance from another robot on top of our arm while we tried to lift it ruined the split clamps that attached the gears to the axle. There was too much torque going from the motors to the arm while it was powered that the split clamps just could not hold. They broke a few times, and a great thanks to Team 18 for selling us two split clamps just before one of our matches that probably saved us. We need to figure out a better, more reliable method for raising our arm so we don't keep running into this problem.
The competition is about MUCH more than just the robot. If kids are glued to the robot all of the time, then they miss the rest of it... the other fun stuff, what makes FIRST, FIRST. - Kims Robot [more] 
09-02-2009, 23:25
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