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Re: pic: 1885 Drive Train 2010

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
The current plan is to let them conform to the ramp. If there are a few pounds left over at the end of build season, we may add some sort of simple tension system to put a traction bias on the inner 4 wheels, yet all 8 wheels would still stay on the ground.

The chassis is based off of this concept that was thought of before the C-Base towers and Toughbox Nano's came out. That concept was based off of this concept of a natural terrain-hugging suspension.
If you're confident that the innermost wheelbase is short enough to allow unfettered turning, you might consider putting omniwheels in all of the outermost locations instead of developing the tension system you're talking about.

It's largely a trade off between time and money, I guess.
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