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Originally Posted by Malm
Thank you all for the information!
I am now also very interested in the T-bone test, hopefully we can do it soon if nobody else is able to post results earlier.
Regarding the belts breaking - I am also very concerned about that. We have 2 spares (from our practice chassis), hopefully that will get us through our first regional if they start breaking.
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One of the things you have to remember is how you support the track that is on the ground or the will be impacted during play. If you have a wheel over the backing of every bit of track that touches the ground, the belt has very little room for traverse movement or elongation. Especially since the Rhino Tread has a v groove backing. However, as you remove idler pulleys or wheels from that area, you belt has a lot of room for extension past its length. It can only handle 600 pounds of force, as I have read on the AndyMark website, so the more it extends or deforms, the more force that builds on the tread. Just make sure that if you are using the tread, you make great considerations for hitting the defenses wide open with a 140 pound robot on a section of tread that is not supported. This is probably the number way to break these treads in this years game.