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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
Do you have a snapshot of your wheels with wear?
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If their wheels have worn as ours have, the taller 'points' of the tread will gradually wear down and begin to round until they're even with the shorter 'points' of the tread. From there, the wheels seem to wear evenly - the points begin to round and will gradually get smaller until (I assume) they will more or less go away completely.
We first noticed the wheel wear after our first event, and rotated our front wheels to the rear to attempt to even out the wheel wear. From what we've seen, the wear may cause a minor decrease in effective COF when pushing forward, but not enough to be too worried about.
If there's an opportunity, I will get a picture of one of our more worn wheels on Thursday Morning and report back. It's also worth noting that we've played ~40 competition matches, maybe 10 practice matches and have a good 6-8 hours of additional run time on our competition robot's wheels. Odds are, a large majority of teams won't see this amount of run time until the Championship or after, so wheel wear may not be an issue for them.
*Edit, Allen posted pictures of 3847's wheels.... If anyone still wants more info, let me know...