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Re: Velcro tread

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
No, I'm not sure it would, but the concern is that it would. I had an old rain jacket with velcro straps that let you tighten the wrists, and over time the velcro really tore up the wrist part where there wasn't any loop side.
Same here, jacket and all.

Sure, the loops won't necessarily give way right away (same for surrounding fabric. But it doesn't take long (say, a few years for a jacket)--call it a few hundred attach/detach cycles--for wear to show up, even under normal use like that. Now consider a robot with industrial-strength Velcro as its tread material. It's "attaching" for at least a few cycles a match, and if it's slipping in a pushing match, you're dealing with a very, very fast cycle--might hit several hundred in one spot in a couple of matches if you push in the same area. There goes the carpet. (For other similar items, see "HiGrip in powerful drivetrain slams wall in auto and keeps going". That automode ended with a hole clear through the carpet!)
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