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[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by jgannon

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there aren't any legal 1.5" bore cylinders with a stroke greater than 11". The only legal cylinders are the ones available from this page:
http://www.bimba.com/FirstFree.aspx

Thanks for the heads up... it looks like our engineering team goofed.
Glad you caught it... ..

We will figure out something else then... the only long cylinder is the 2" 24" throw big boy...
I don't think we can afford the weight of that beast...
and we certainly don't need the power...

We named our robot the super skunk ( in German..) as a tribute to the German exchange student on the team... and because we are the skunk works...
Our t-shirts show our skunk holding up the Trackball...

We used the omni's because originally we wanted to make a circular frame and had worked prototyping that drive system during the fall.
When the game came along we had to redesign but we had omni wheels around so we decided to use them. We like the AM plastic omni wheels mounted in tandem and directly driven by DeWalt transmissions with CIM motors...


smile...