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Re: pic: 2175 Wheel

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Originally Posted by Andrew Y. View Post
i highly recommend testing them and abusing them before competition. We have 4 stratus machines and 2 fortus machines at work and we only use them for prototyping purposes... Im a bit skeptical that those will hold up. my $0.02
We've built mecanum wheels on a SLS-type printer (not sure about the brand, sorry), then abused them. AFAIK, all the wheels (we built 5, not counting 8 VEX-scale ones) survived everything we could throw at them.

Depending what your work does, I can understand the prototyping. It can be quicker than machining or casting, but for the long runs of parts you'd want to look a lot harder at other methods to see if they'd work. For small batches or a quick turnaround, though...
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