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Re: Andymark Pneumatic wheel problems

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Originally Posted by PizzaBoxZombie View Post
As several other teams and IR3 have shown in various youtube videos, the pneumatic wheels from andymark are pretty decent shooting wheels. after recieving ours, however, we found that ours are out of balance/round. spinning at 5-6500 rpm they shake around a lot and can not achieve full potential speed.
I doubt Andy & Mark expected teams to try and go 125 mph with those wheels. As others have said slowing down or switching is probably the least work per performance.
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