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Originally Posted by HayWire1569
do the front of the wheels need to be covered, or just the side and tops?
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That depended on the existing design. There were some bots that only had a tiny bit of wheel uncovered in the front; we left those alone. Others had huge percentages of a wheel exposed; those were covered. Unfortunately, it's an "it depends" situation.
This wasn't just an "in case the wheel starts disintegrating" thing. One team had a wheel from a baseball pitching machine. It was factory-balanced and rated for some unearthly number of rpms. It got a cover.
One of the mentors for a team I was inspecting verbalized a great thought test for this. Ask yourself: would you be comfortable with this spinning at full speed with you and the bot in a phone booth? Both he and I are old enough to remember such structures; others may need to use Wikipedia.