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Re: mating 2009 rover wheels and sprockets

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Originally Posted by Andy Baker View Post
We have done life testing with only 3 screws holding the sprocket in place. This works well. As for insertion and re-insertion, I am pretty sure that these will work well. If they don't work as well, then I suggest using 6 screws.

Andy
The wheels on our practice robot only had three screws holding the hub in place. That set of wheels saw between 32-40 hours of run time this season (compared to the average competition bot which gets about an hour and a half a season).

We had zero problems with just three screws.
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