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Re: Mecanum wear and dirt resistance

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Originally Posted by Tom Ore View Post
Scrubbing is sideways motion on a wheel. Take any wheel, hold it on the floor and push it sideways - you'll get wear. When a mecaunum robot is straffing sideways the rollers are scrubbing. You don't even need pure straffing - any time you turn you'll get some scrubbing.
So by this definition, scrubbing isn't a problem (as a design feature of mecanum wheels).

To those teams who have used mecanums before, how much wear did you see and how much did you use the wheels? Have any of you run your wheels extensively in dirt and not had issues (or had issues)?