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Originally Posted by SenorZ
Does $6 for a 2" wheel seem a bit steep to anyone else?
Seen similar wheels on many 2015 robots for landfill tote gathering.
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Yes and no, they do appear to be waterjet out of sheet... and the material isn't that cheap. For low qty production the price seems about right.
[QOUTE]I never understood why they were made with a 0.5" square bore instead of hex. I imagine (with absolutely no real-world testing of course) these new wheels won't work as well as the entrapption stars for intakes of spheres, like the boulders this year because the stars can get more than tangential contact. I would love to see AndyMark come with with a v2 of the stars with a 0.5" hex bore just for ease of use. [/quote]
Looks like these would be fairly easy to modify by cutting the ring out and getting 6 point star.