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Re: Does this chassis look as if it would work?

We used big mecanum wheels during Breakaway...they did surprisingly well on those ramps. I think bigger ones could probably *manage* to get over most of the defenses.

However, we found out that even the impact of coming down off the Breakaway ramps eventually started bending the heck out of the roller support tabs, eventually jamming them. Later in the competition season a major pit task was fixing all the bent tabs....and at like 400 bucks for a set, we weren't in the position to have spares.

I think mecanums would eventually get wrecked in this game.
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