New AndyMark products 2016

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Can someone with experience with Blue Nitrile Tread comment on its durability for drivetrain wheels? It looks pretty sweet and has a good CoF so it seems interesting.

We ran Blue Nitrile on 865 in 2014 on a highly defensive 6wd robot because we heard how durable it was. On average the middle wheel would last 2-3 matches before it became a slick. Our outer wheels would last 4-6 matches. Changing tread was a pain requiring two people to rivet the tread to the alu performance wheel and the ziptie attachment method did not work at all. We had to buy a second set of wheels so we could swap the tread fast enough (good thing we were using a WCD). The traction was marginally better than a Colson when fresh IMO.

4/10 would not use again

[thinker&planner]

Is that a 2" Stealth wheel? This would be great, if it could compete with BaneBots wheels.

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by thinker&planner

Is that a 2" Stealth wheel? This would be great, if it could compete with BaneBots wheels.

Judging by the "#stealthwheel" in the caption, I'd say it is.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by thinker&planner

Is that a 2" Stealth wheel? This would be great, if it could compete with BaneBots wheels.

Um this already exists.

http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-3155.htm

[jkelleyrtp]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

Um this already exists.

http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-3155.htm

According to their drawing, it was developed about a week ago. Might be wrong however. Stealth Wheel Drawing

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by jkelleyrtp

According to their drawing, it was developed about a week ago. Might be wrong however. Stealth Wheel Drawing

If you look on the drawings it has different tread Durometers for different colors. Looks like the one you can buy is the gray one which has a durometer of 77a compared to the blue(Pictured) which has a durometer of 50a. So Im guessing the new product has to do with the tread at not the wheel shape.

Also just noticed they spelled color wrong.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Also just noticed they spelled color wrong.

Noupe

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Gregor

Noupe

So you coming to Natiounals this year?

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Also just noticed they spelled color wrong.

Colour is my favourite way to spell colour.

-Nick

[MichaelBick]

Originally Posted by mman1506

We ran Blue Nitrile on 865 in 2014 on a highly defensive 6wd robot because we heard how durable it was. On average the middle wheel would last 2-3 matches before it became a slick. Our outer wheels would last 4-6 matches. Changing tread was a pain requiring two people to rivet the tread to the alu performance wheel and the ziptie attachment method did not work at all. We had to buy a second set of wheels so we could swap the tread fast enough (good thing we were using a WCD). The traction was marginally better than a Colson when fresh IMO.

4/10 would not use again

How wide were your wheels?

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by MichaelBick

How wide were your wheels?

1" we used these http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-0393.htm

Admittedly it's an edge case. Blue nitrile treads will work fine for a lot of teams but with new COTS options like Colsons I think there are better options out there.

[Munchskull]

Well it is already evident that the big focus of the new products is going to be new wheels. The two instagram photos dipicted new color wheels, black and blue. Most likely to replace the bane bot wheels. Black, blue and grey have different durometers.

[asid61]

Originally Posted by mman1506

1" we used these http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-0393.htm

Admittedly it's an edge case. Blue nitrile treads will work fine for a lot of teams but with new COTS options like Colsons I think there are better options out there.

How odd. I wonder how your tread wore out so fast. We ran blue nitrile in 2014 and didn't need to swap out for two competitions.

[cad321]

If you hadn't seen it yet, some new products have been released. A whole slew of new wheels, and also some slick bumper material.

http://www.andymark.com/New-Products-s/189.htm

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by cad321

If you hadn't seen it yet, some new products have been released. A whole slew of new wheels, and also some slick bumper material.

http://www.andymark.com/New-Products-s/189.htm

The six and eight inch wheels both say they are four inch diameter. Oops.