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Re: Casters vs. Unpowered Omni wheels

We used them in 1997 and I was a driver. They work fairly well if the rest of the machine was designed to work that way and the use a more sweeping style of driving than sudden direction changes. We even had mixed control with single joystick instead of dual joystick tank drive.
Our machine was a front wheel drive tail dragger. It had a forward heavy CG and would scoop tubes and reach forward.
The event was Toroid Terror and the event was in a hexagon with a center mounted goal.
The year prior we used a 2wd center mounted with solid pads instead of casters in the 4 corners. it was tank driven and was fine, just rocked a little.


However in this years event there is no way they would work with the ramps/tables.
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