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Originally posted by M. Krass
Well, that's just one wheel. There would be 4 per side, in theory.
If you were able to get stock that large. . .or, even 6". . .how would you machine it to get that sort of object?
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We did something exactly like that last year. The wheels were machined with an automated mill at our high school I believe. In fact, the wheels got messed up so they had to machine some new ones this past weekend.
The problem with the bicroflex is adhering the stuff to the wheel. We did have a compound that adhered it rather well. We were using the green bicroflex belts, but they didn't offer enough traction, so we went to the brown bicroflex at the cometitions. We attached this to the wheels by drilling holes in them and riveting the belt to the wheel. It worked, but eventually the belting wore down and had to be replaced (which is why new ones were machined).
I know we had CAD drawings on our team's website,
Team 93, but they don't seem to be there. Check back some time and the cad drawing should be there.
You can see the brown belt on the right (rear) wheels, and the green belt on the left (front) wheels.