While waiting for me to finish with the Monday/Wednesday team Esther got out her team's clawbot for some driving practice, but there was some trouble. The robot pulled more and more to one side until finally it failed to turn the wheels on that side at all.
Pulling the motor out we found that it sounded like the electric motor was spinning inside, but that the place the axle inserted into would stop spinning with the lightest pressure, as if the gears inside the motor had stripped. A bit discouraging on a new robot just days before the first challenge.
I saw that we were past the VEX support hours so I sent off an email to them and to Gary Stewardson and hoped for the best.
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