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Originally Posted by daliberator
I saw your drivetrain at 10k and at the week 0. It looked awesome! Did you guys ever have trouble in pushing matches, with the wheels having no treads?
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We never actually got into any real pushing matches. I think that if we were to get into one, the belts would probably just skip.
On the topic of skipping, we only had major trouble with belts skipping at two points: when the gearboxes were loose, and when some of the c-channel between the frame and the c-channel holding the wheels collapsed in on itself (the second one at the week zero event, which is why we spent about 2-2.5 hours in your shop around lunch instead of competing). We found solutions for both, the first one being to tighten the bolts holding the gearboxes to the frame, and to add a churro shaft holding the gearboxes together so they didn't bounce around so much. The solution for the second one was to bend back the c-channel (using bolts with two nuts on them and tightening them in opposite directions) and to add a 1" piece of o-channel to the middle of the c-channel to prevent bending there.
Another thing we heard from a few people was "You put a boulder in there as a wheel?
Oh, that's an actual wheel." They did look similar to a boulder, especially when they were new.
Those wheels were very fun to watch on the field. I'm currently putting together a montage of all of our bot's jumps over defenses. Not sure when it will be done, but hopefully before state (no promises though).