pic: What's going on here?

[James Tonthat]

I think it's been established that the transverse and inline friction are the same. The KoP sheet may say otherwise but real world testing shows them to be the same. Just fyi,

[Stuart]

I think you might find some issues with crabbing side to side with that trailer attached. You might just end up rotating around the trailer, but it will be interesting to see how it turns out.

[JesseK]

This is obvisouly a ploy to get us thinking that this is a crab module. In fact, take away the wheel and it's a perfectly good shooter wheel mount that fits inside the lazy susan...

[waialua359]

or what about an idler wheel?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by JesseK

This is obvisouly a ploy to get us thinking that this is a crab module. In fact, take away the wheel and it's a perfectly good shooter wheel mount that fits inside the lazy susan...

Or just rotate the picture 90* and you get something that looks like this....

[Killraine]

Originally Posted by jtkellertx

I think it's been established that the transverse and inline friction are the same. The KoP sheet may say otherwise but real world testing shows them to be the same. Just fyi,

The real world testing we did confirmed the values on the KoP. Using a scale we pulled a 4 wheel, weighted (120lbs) chassis in both directions (with the wheels locked.) We got ~16 lbs in-line to overcome static friction and 25 lbs transverse.
I think FIRST would release an update if they were wrong. Recheck your tests and, in the future, explain your methods before making this kind of statement.