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Re: Mecanum wheels

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Originally Posted by Qcom View Post
Question: You mentioned the Vex Mechanums cracking in an earlier post. Where did they break, and was the break catestrophic enough to warrant immediate disabling of robot movement (i.e. could the robot finish a match if this occured)?
I personally did not mention it but our team has used mecanum enough for me to answer. Usually it is the roller that cracks I believe, we never have had serious issues with this. Barring a catastrophe of some sort, you can still finish the match driving almost normally. Depending on the severity of the crack you might notice it in your robots driving.

You can purchase additional rollers online to replace old/cracked ones. We did this to all of our rollers to retrofit old mecanum wheels and make them sort of new again before last season. If you check the wheels regularly and make sure you have spares on hand you will be fine.
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