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Post Re: Making your robot drive easier

Question about "Home Depot Lumber cart Drive-train"
Is the lowering of the center wheels as significant as is with the lumber carts? They have a definate see-saw effect and are truely always driving on just four wheels. Center set plus either set on the corners.

Or is it just enough to lower the contact patch on the corner wheels so that the frictional forces are reduced such that it can turn and not dance around corners?

A post early on indicated approximately 5 thousandths of an inch lower. Is that consistant with other six wheel 'bots? How much did you lower the center wheels?

Thanks a bunch for the posts and pics

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Last edited by Andrew Schuetze : 15-04-2004 at 11:35. Reason: correction