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Originally Posted by Veselin Kolev
Well, you can have wheels hanging off the side of your robot, you just have to support them well. Like at Cal Games in California, team 254 had joined up with Kingman to build another bot over the summer, and it had 6 or 8 wheels, i forget, all of which were outside the body.
And it worked, WELL! That bot was high quality, it was so fast it was seriously getting air off the ramp.
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Obviously robots
can do this, and in a situation where you have 6 or 8 wheels, some of the problems are reduced .
It still doesn't make it a good practice. <edit> in my opinion
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You need bigger shafts to hold the wheels, there's more stress on the ball bearings... lots of extra problems with no immediate benefit coming to mind. Whereas I was a bit more open to other opinions on using #25 chain... nobody's going to convince me that it's better to have wheels cantilevered off to the side in FIRST.
No more $.02... I'm dropping a quarter.
Matt