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Originally Posted by Billfred
We tested them pretty thoroughly with old FTC balls, including a 1" practice golf ball that has basically zero squish of its own, and the engineers derated it to a number they were confident in. Obviously, anyone running any crazy-high-speed system should inspect those wheels early and often.
Nathan did the actual testing, and he may be able to provide more detail.
A product that we want to tease.  |
As of right now the site still shows 9001 RPM.
What is pretty thoroughly? 1000 shots? 10000?
I know some of the teams running the fairlane teardrop wheels in 2013 replaced them a few times over the season due to tears propagating.
I would say that you are not an engineer until you've both obtained the aforementioned peice of paper AND done something with your tumescent engineers forebrain. - phrontist [more] 
12-29-2016, 09:59 PM
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