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Re: Team 1535 Knights of Alloy Nearly complete robot!
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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
In the event you have problems with the casters, you may want to consider omni-wheels from AndyMark. The omnis offer all the rolling/turning abilities of a caster, but with a larger diameter wheels and without the need for the caster to rotate in order for a directional change to occur. Heck, you can even run a chain up to them and have four wheel or six wheel drive.... and they should be an incredibly simple retro-fit for your machine.

But if the casters are working... go for it.

Jason
I agree with Jason in 2006 we had major problems with caster wheels and fixed everything by switching to omni wheels.