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Originally Posted by Panthers 3181
How did you bend your tube and What material did you use?
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1/2" EMT Conduit and a conduit bender. The bender is about $40 dollars and 10 feet of conduit is under $2 for us locally. We bought about 60 ft so we could screw up a bunch as we learned to bend it well.
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Originally Posted by philso
After searching CD, I found a few instances of the same sort of thing happening with the larger Vex mecanums though they seem to have occurred after much more use and abuse.
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We had read those as well, we had assumed we would be replacing the wheels after our two regionals and before championship/off-seasons. I didn't expect to have to change a wheel after one week. It's partly our fault, we wanted to believe.
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Originally Posted by Electronica1
I am starting to notice a trend here, the people who are having issues with the vex mecanum wheels are the people who are using 8 motors on their drive. (the only instances I can think of are Boom Done and Spectrum)
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That's interesting, I don't see why that would cause the problem, but I'm also done putting time and thought into Mecanum wheels. I wasn't on the Mecanum bandwagon before this season and I definitely jumped clean off of it last night. Maybe we'll find out it it was our fault, I don't know but for now it's not worth the hassle.