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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
Tape measures are meant to be pulled, not pushed. The challenge then becomes one of driving the unrooling of the spool at the shaft end before the curvature is added, or driving the tape after it is curved without ruining that curvature (this should be easy for teams who can sculpt a wheel's profile on a lathe).
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If you push fast enough, they don't seem to care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyMEM3njrM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJFQkBGCgaE&t=0m19s
This mechanism just ran a 1.625" rubber Banebots wheel against a tape measure. It was flat at the drive wheel, but had a long support that allowed the tape to curl back up.