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Originally Posted by nuclearnerd
Has anyone used this cleated conveyor belting material from McMaster-Carr as tread on a Plaction-type wheel before? What was your experience?
http://www.mcmaster.com/#5987k1/=10p0j32
(Follow up question - how much do we trust plaction wheels when jumping over the moat? We're running out of 8" wheel options  |
Plaction wheels will not survive slamming into things like that. The thin lip they use to secure the tread side-to-side will fracture and break off. We have extensive experience with plaction wheels. In fact, just popping wheelies and coming down hard will cause the same failure mode. Versa's version are more durable in that regard.
As a temporary fix to the lip coming off, you can rivet all along the thread in between each spoke. Eventually, however, the rim itself will fracture through at one of these points.