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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
You guys are all giving good input. Mark and I both appreciate it. If these wheels are used again (which, I dearly hope they are), we will definitely improve the areas where they are weak.
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We ran them (hard!) all through Palmetto with no problems whatsoever, with a change from the original resin to roughtop and wedgetop, both for the higher CoF and for the slightly smaller diameter that let us move them a peg outward on the kit frame. The wheels handled it just fine to my knowledge, but I'll check when the team meets again to see about any cracking that may have appeared.
I did notice that the black nubs hidden underneath the resin were starting to show on some of the robots that ran them stock. I don't know any way to fix the problem (especially when you can just get a new wheel for $12), but it might start to get interesting around the Championship when some wheels go full-on with the alternating black and gray.
For my money, these wheels are great. The one thing I'd love to see is an option to get these wheels "in the nude", just to save a step in the molding process, but I'll take these just about any way they come.