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Re: Rhino Track Belt Replacement

Our team always builds fully-modular drive trains so that if anything fails spectacularly, we can have it entirely apart, replaced, and put back together in a short timeframe.

We have a bot with Rhino Treads this year and we didn't change our drive train plan at all. We still have two fully-modular drive pods so that if we break a belt, it comes apart, is replaced, and goes back onto the robot with ease.

You can see the insides of one drive pod in a picture here.
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