Thread: 1114 and 2056's shooter wheels
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Re: 1114 and 2056's shooter wheels
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Originally Posted by Cash4587 View Post
One more thing, how much compression was typically run with these wheels on the disks?
We ran ours with about 1/4" to 1/2" of compression. At speed, they noticeably increase in diameter as the urethane stretches (which is why you shouldn't run them at extremely high speeds -- we blew two of them open at the Sacramento Regional). However, in practice the frisbee buckled upward much more than the urethane compressed.
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