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Re: Mecanum wear and dirt resistance

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Originally Posted by flameout View Post
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)?
On carpet, the scrubbing doesn't cause any wear. If you use mecanum wheels on pavement and dirt please let me know how it goes - I would expect you're going to see wear. (By the way, we've used mecanum wheels - we have 4 regional wins on mecanum wheels.)