Thread: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad
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Re: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad
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One thing we will most likely never use again are casters. Our rookie year, not our best year, we used caster is much the same way they are used on menards carts, two in front two in back and two drive wheels in the middle. It was very unstable and hard on the toughboxes.
Couldn't agree more! I've seen nothing but problems for teams using casters of all types, especially when climbing ramps or going over a bump of any kind.
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