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Re: Drive Wheels

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Originally Posted by EricDrost View Post
As for wheels, I still think Colsons are king. They're incredibly easy to use with hubs from: West Coast Products. We use 4" wheels with our own tread cut into them.
We thought about using Colsons this year (we really wanted too), but could not figure out how to make a dead axle hub that worked for a 1/2" diameter shaft.

The hub wall thickness get's really thin trying to make room for a 1/2" diameter bearing.

We could have gone with 3/8" steel axles, but did not want to make that drastic a change to our wheel mounting setup.

We ended up using the 4" VEX Versa Wheel, which has been great in all situations outside of driving up the pole for climbing, when we were spinning our wheels on the tape.

We think we fixed that issue by paring a 3.875" blue banebot wheel next to the rear Versa wheel, that seemed to have given us enough traction to start the pole climb.
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