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Re: pic: 4 Inch Wheel Design

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Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor= View Post
Someone explain to me why, in this day and age, anyone would bother making custom wheels.
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Because we would have spent $1800+shipping to buy AndyMark Performance Wheels this year...and once we got them we would have had to do secondary machining on them anyways.

Instead we made our own for $300 plus ~20 hours of my time.
Martin,

Cory is definitely right, we spent about $1500 plus shipping for a set of wheels for our bot, practice and rookie team.

They also weighed in at 1lb per wheel for a 6 inch wheel. Even with modd'd IFI wheels they were way tooo heavy.

For next season we will be making custom wheels unless "standard" wheels (2009) make a return.

-RC
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