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Originally Posted by RRLedford
As far as the TETRIX plastic tread, goes I would not trust it under high loads, especially lateral loads.
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Generally treaded drives have to be protected from lateral loads-- Tetrix treads are the same way, with the added restriction that they're pretty light duty.
If you're still interested in a treaded robot but don't want the difficulties of a fully treaded robot, you could try making a half-treaded robot-- ie, an 8-inch contact patch in the back of your robot and some omni wheels in the front.
I would also recommend looking at FTC 5975's
Treadpods from last year. I was judging at North Super Regional last season and these were easily the coolest things I saw there.