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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
I'd like to see your photos too.
My concern is we ran FLR with a rock in our drive train, and for buckeye we took out the rock. My concern is that we have run 4 traction wheels in the front and omni in the back. We have the omni level or raised. Will the worn down wheels gives us a greater rock as the competition goes on?
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It's hard to say without knowing the exact specifics, but if you experience wear like we did, it will have an effect on how the robot appears to 'sit' on the floor.
In our case, we found that the wear on the rear wheels was enough to cause the front of our robot to sit up from the floor ~1/8" or so - making our intake appear to not work as intended...
One easy solution to the wear problem is to periodically rotate the wheels between ends/corners/etc. In our application, an 8WD with .090" drop on the center two wheel pairs, we've found that the rear most pair and the rear center pair wear the fastest (under the center of mass), the front center pair wears a bit slower, but not by much, and the front wheels barely wore at all. The simple solution was swapping the front and rear wheel pairs between our week 1 competition and week 3 competition. Luckily, our drive is set up in such a way that it allows for wheel swaps in less than 2 minutes or so.