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Unread 09-01-2008, 23:43
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Re: Omni wheels?

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Originally Posted by tawnos23 View Post
I would suggest to buy metal omniwheels instead of the plastic ones. Our first year with omniwheels we bought the plastic ones, and they broke to pieces during the course of a regional.
WE shattered a junky plastic one all over the field tw years back... and another one demonstrating post-season. The ones currently on the robot aren't very "omni" as most of the small wheels are locked in place by what I assume is a crushing force of the omniwheel plastic colapsing.


That said, last year we used these: http://andymark.biz/am-0097.html
with excellent results, and we will use them again in the future...