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Re: pic: MVRT115 Broken Arm
If you can keep your arm within the 28x38 envelope (within the bumper zone) while you are driving with a ringer to the rack, you are protected by rule <G35>. It's when you are picking up a ringer or are placing it on a spider that the arm is vulnerable. Of course, it's possible to damage the arm in autonomous or by driving into another robot, the rack or player station wall.
The relatively "flimsy" arms are to be expected. This year's game elements are a lot lighter than the dreaded tetras from "Triple Play" or the doubling balls (and hanging your 120 lb. robot) in "Raising the Bar". Teams that have ramps and manipulators on their are going to design the lightest arms possible.
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Place a corner of it on the end of a table, clamp down the other side, and have a good whack at it with a hammer (hard). If it didn't break, it was polycarbonate. - vivek16 [more] 
23-02-2007, 01:16
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