Gripping a Tote

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

This is really weird. We tried this exact tread today after hearing a lot of hype and got TERRIBLE results. As in it's one of the only wheel treads we tried that just straight up could not even intake a perfectly aligned box. Are we doing something wrong?

Blue Banebots are our current front runner. They even seem to work better than orange Banebots. Somehow we have yet to try Colsons...

Did you install it on a wheel? If so which one? Lack of surface contact might be the problem. The BB wheels may be working better for you because they have more rubber and can compress which increases the contact area. We are using the Green Grippy tread on a claw with about 4 inches of surface contact. In my experience, even a 3 inch long piece when laid on the tote, is extremely difficult to move side to side.

[Lil' Lavery]

Green banebots wheels worked the best in our limited trials, however we have concern over how quickly they wear.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Green banebots wheels worked the best in our limited trials, however we have concern over how quickly they wear.

Blue BB wheels work very well for us--but they do wear quickly during prototyping. That should be less of an issue once we have limit switches, etc. in place to keep them from scrubbing so much.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Green banebots wheels worked the best in our limited trials, however we have concern over how quickly they wear.

Did you try the white kit wheels as well? We found the white kit wheels worked better than our green BB wheels, which was very surprising to me. I'm wondering if our test set up wasn't fair to different types of wheels.