Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

Which do you think is better fitted for a roller claw in terms of grippyness and strength? The 3 wheels we are looking at are standard VEX wheels, Banebots wheels, and Polyurethane Rollerblade wheels.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

In 2007 Team 100 used the removable neoprene LEGO wheels for our grabber.

Except the roller blade wheels, which may be too slick, all of those options should work.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

Team 2745 used the banebot wheels last season and liked the grip on the tubes.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

The best claw wheels for 2011 application, are RC Rock Crawler wheels and tires. Some of them are specifically designed for sticking and forming to anything they touch. 973, 1323, 1625, and a few other teams used them with great success. At least from 973's manipulator, you would have to fully deflate and rip the tube to shreds to remove it.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

The Banebots wheels worked pretty well for us. Nice rubber, very light, and already hex broached.

http://banebots.com/c/WHB-HS4-194

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

And where can these wheels be found?

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

I believe these are the tires 973, 1323, and 1625 used. The wheels come with a 12mm hex already in them, but we put a .5" broach through them to fit easier on our claw.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

Thanks!

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

The use of memory foam in those tires seems like a really cool concept. I wonder if I could make my own with some epoxy and Tool Dip for a coating.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

What says that you need wheels to make the best roller claws?

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

Not this. (not the fastest, but definitely very durable, It still works to this day. It also has more than enough grip, but that was on a fabric covered ball, the tubes might not work quite as well)
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30681

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

Ditto.

We've made many roller claws over the years starting back in 1998 and never used wheels. We've used knurled aluminum tubing on multiple occasions and Polyurethane cord or belt on others. I doubt we'd even look at using wheels.

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

We used a combination of the green banebots wheels, and urethane round belting (aka polycord) to create our roller claw.

Here's a video of it before we got everything mounted on the chassis: Team 125 Roller Claw Testing

-Brando

Re: Poll: Best roller claw wheels
 

180 spam used natural gum rubber "wheels" on our roller claw and if we touched a tube we could leave because it was just about guaranteed to come into our gripper and not go anywhere.