Hey, my name Marshall from team 11761B Blaze, and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for improvements on our DR4B, and on how to hook up a chain bar to the top of it. I would also like to know on some improvements for our cone manipulator, because it sticks out out of the boundary. I was thinking of replacing it with a braided goliath manipulator, but I don’t have much experience with those, so I don’t want to have to build it… for it to only not work. Thanks!
It looks like you are using a 1 x n bar to support the bottom portion of the lift on the inside of the 5 wide c-channels (correct me if I’m wrong). I don’t recommend using the 1 x n bars, our team calls them “bendy pieces” for a reason. I’d say use the 2 wide c-channels or nothing at all, because if you rely on the bendy pieces they’ll eventually fail you (trust me, I have experience with this). Unless there is very little stress on the piece
I would recommend to move your motors to the second tower because our team found that when the motors are connected to the first tower it causes a lot of play vertically in the lift. Someone else may have had different experiences but the majority of teams put them on the second tower.