Chief Delphi - pic: 2" Mecanum Wheel

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Re: pic: 2" Mecanum Wheel

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Originally Posted by Justin_302

cool design....not enough traction.

delrin is an easy to machine material witch can be coated with somthing that has bette traction.

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Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

I like that idea. I want to make 3 inch wheels for a practice VEX bot I want to put together.

Where would you find the rollers? Any ideas on the making "fan blade"?

Doug

take a piece of sheet metal whip out your tinsnips, cutout the pattern and bend it. i guess

Re: pic: 2" Mecanum Wheel

Those wheels are really cool but they are already in existance. One of our allience partners at regionals had them. the rollers are at 45 degree anggle right. They work well but....... not very much traction at all.

Re: pic: 2" Mecanum Wheel

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Originally Posted by MarsBOtkid

yes, royal assault theyre 8" mecanum wheels i admire very much and they are deffenetly not the first or the last of their kind. I love their button they were giving away it was just a mecanum wheel side view. i have it here hanging on my shelf at work. royal assault had there oun custom silicone rolers with fiberglass bushings. they deffenitaly had traction and plenty of it. there problem was getting up the ramp with those huge wheels all 4 of them had to be touching the ground for the robot to move properly, going up the ramp at any angle but straight on wouldn't work.