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Re: Casters

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Originally Posted by merybar View Post
Thanks for the insight.
What we are looking for is slightly different. Not the conventional shopping cart casters more like a caster with a ball in it kind of like on a pedistal. What we are trying to eliminate is the having to orient the robot like when pushing a shopping cart it wont just go out dead straight. Maybe casters arnt the way to go for this and if thats the case as well anybody got any good ideas? Thanks for the help!
Matt
If you can't find the ball casters, try putting omni wheels in instead.
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