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Originally Posted by team1535captain
Team 1535 The Knights of Alloy, here. 
We are looking for a certain type of casters, they are called 'Globe Casters'.
We have seen them on robots in the past.
Unlike a normal caster they are like a large ball bearing instead of a wheel. The ones that we have seen on other robots looked almost exactly like those orange street hockey balls. They have full movement in every direction. We have found a few but they are more for industrial use and weigh close to 10lbs a piece! That is way too heavy for this game as many of you know!
Does anyone know where we could find some?
Thanks,
Team 1535 Knights of Alloy. |
As others have noted these are known as ball transfer casters. You can get them in 'ball up' or 'ball down' configurations- and made from vinyl/steel/stainless/brass. They don't run so well on concrete... and you can get very large balls if you need to.
There's a company local to Rochester NY that carries these items and ships them- I can get the address if you're interested as well as my contact there (I purchased them for another project).
Let me know-
Jason