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Re: 4" Wooden Mecanum Wheel

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
heh...I used the compound rest. I suggested that the error would be pretty low if we made the half roller as two cones. Kevin figured the angles at 6 and 16 degrees, I set the compound rest to those angles to turn it. then we sanded the lump in the middle to radius it.
Squirrel,

This is how we turn the rollers for our mecanum wheels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Zvib5nZVw&hd=1
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