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Re: build season needs to be longer.
The world is not out of pneumatic wheels. I can drive down to my local harbor freight and pick up plenty right now.
One of the cool things about FIRST is that it's an open materials competition. We don't have to use a specific wheel from a supplier who caters specifically to FRC -- we can put any wheel we want to on the robot. And maybe take the opportunity to give students a taste of how it was back in the seasons of yesteryear, when you couldn't buy everything with 1/2" hex bore+1.875" bolt circles, and had to use some creativity to make it work on the robot. The real world doesn't snap together easily.
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anything that breaks a kitbot frame is probably breaking most custom frames of similar weight, too. - dtengineering [more] 
15-01-2016, 22:32
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