Help!!..wheels?

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by EricH

You could get some conveyor belting from McMaster and use that as a covering for the AMs. That's a trick that a lot of teams use.

^This.

1618 has done this very thing for two seasons--we cut off the tread from the AndyMark FIRST Wheels on our bandsaw, then rivet on incline conveyor belting from McMaster-Carr. The result has been rock solid; two robots, three events, no issues. (We did finally throw one tread during a demo early this year...from our 2007 robot, after the Palmetto Regional, Brunswick Eruption, and several demos.)

Tread costs a couple bucks, the wheels cost $10 each (plus bearings)--but getting the functionality of replaceable-tread wheels for half of the cost is well worth the afternoon of work.