[BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by squirrel

This part fits into lower and upper tubes, which are part of the field. The bumps fit into holes in the tubes. It's a fairly common way to attach tubes that need to be taken apart relatively quickly.

My question is, how long do the legs on our robot need to be?

AKA Spring Pins.

It looks to be a union that mates two pair of parallel rails.
If the ID of those rails were one inch, then the C to C width of the rails woud be ~8-1/2"

If a few sets of what we see there and the rails were vertical, they would form a set of shelves (or hangers) of sorts. Kind of like a dual pole bathtub caddy?????

EDIT - On second thought & knowing field construction and shipping limits, those missing rails would be about six feet long.
Given the radius across from the (mounting) ear in the polycarb, I'm inclined (pun intended) to think it's the mount/standoff for a set of ball returns (think bowling alley).