pic: Easy to make mecanum wheels

[mechanicalbrain]

Originally Posted by BrianBSL

Interesting idea, but I can tell you that the octagonal hub that 190's wheels bolted to was one of the easier parts of making the wheel. Just take a 3" square piece of aluminum and mill off the corners until you have 8 equal sides. You say only with a wood shop, but I don't know how you are going to make a roller support with only a wood shop. Casting the rollers and making the supports was the most difficult part.

I don't know how well non curved rollers would work either.

Well i can make them curved but as you can tell from this picture that this is hardy a schematic. Actually i was thinking of taking a material (not sure what exactly but ive got a top five list) and using a belt sander. Ive actually seen teams make wheels just by sanding raw material! So yeah im hoping i can do this with a minimum on complexity.