Thread: Slide Drive
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Re: Slide Drive

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Originally Posted by Vikesrock View Post
2175 used it this year. Based on their experience I would recommend mounting the center wheel using some sort of suspension unless the floor is perfectly flat. The bumps around the towers would lift the strafe wheel off the ground when it was rigidly mounted.
Even with the (relatively) flat floor this year, having suspension on the center wheel was a necessity. We were always amazed at how much the center wheel floated up and down even when we thought it was on a perfectly flat floor.
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