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Re: Casters should be banned!noooooooo

Posted by nick237 at 03/23/2001 8:54 AM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: Casters should be banned!
Posted by James Jones on 03/22/2001 11:22 AM EST:



Hey James. we love casters, we used them last year and had no problem with the ramp. In fact we loved them so much we won the UTC regionals with them.
How ever we did have a "great" driver ( my son ) who when he reads this will be blushing, and the machine worked flawlesly.
On another note we did for the first time this year change to four wheel drive and now I wonder if we would have won last year with the same system as we love the new drive. Its awsome.......
I dont think we will ever go back to casters but they did work great for us. nick237


: After watching the Langley and So. Cal. Regionals it has become apparent to me that FIRST could greatly enhance the success of 1st year teams by taking casters off the additional harware list and making them illegal on a robot.

: If any of you read my earlier posts you know I am an advocate of loosening the material rules, not tightenning them. But in this case where we all have to depend on other robots to just make it over the ramp and across the stinkin' field, casters should be banned. Caster drive system are a classic rookie team mistake (including me) and are disasterous when there is an inclined surface that must be traversed. The only thing worse than 2 wheel drive with casters in the front is 2 wheel drive with casters in the back!


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