
16-01-2015, 18:03
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 FRC #0948 (Newport Robotics Group (NRG))
Team Role: Teacher
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Rookie Year: 2011
Location: Bellevue, WA
Posts: 378
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Re: Gripping a Tote
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Originally Posted by asid61
Colson wheels are unbeatable.
We tried that green tread above, blue nitrile, assorted wedgetop, roughtop, pneumatic, higrip, banebots orange, and delrin (we have a lot of tread and wheels).
Of those, I would rank colson as waaaay above anything else, followed by banebots, trailed by pneumatics. Everything else was iffy. We didn't have great results with the green tread, but perhaps it's not the same stuff.
Polycord also gets pretty decent grip.
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I am wondering if there is a particular Colson wheel you found to be the best one? We are in the midst of proto-typing our device and are doing pretty well with the traction wheels from the Kitbot, but want to investigate other options...
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