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Originally Posted by Coffeeism

You can get wheels with treads from vexpro below. You can either buy the wheels and the treads and rivet them together or jet get the tread and rivet it to the white wheels.

http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/wh...on-wheels.html

I don't think that's quite what he means by tank treads. Those could be wheel treads for a tank drive, but he's after tank treads in their more common form.


I've heard of them done using double sided timing belts, but have never done them myself.

A quick search would likely reveal a solid list of teams who have done it. 195 did it in 2006:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=195+tracks

Edit: Here's a discussion of tank treads - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ht=tank+treads
They're really tricky to do right. They would be really cool, but unless there is some crazy terrain, I highly doubt there will ever be a tank tread drive train that performs at the level of a good quality 6 wheel skid (that's the setup that comes in the KoP).