Bills Blog: "Talking about trailers"

[Alex Cormier]

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2009...-trailers.html

Shows what will happen to the trailers of robots that do not show up for a match.

Interesting.

Good Afternoon Teams,

What happens if there aren’t six robots on the field during competition? Six trailers remain in play. We’ve created a bogie wheel to allow unattended trailers to remain in play. A third rover wheel is fitted with a bushing and mounted on the trailer tongue held in place with a clip ring (available from any office supply store. If you have a practice trailer, you might want to create a bogie wheel of your own to experience how this allows the trailer to move during competition.

[Greg Peshek]

Anyone care to elaborate for those of us who are at schools that have internet blocks on anything that is "blog" related? Danke.

-Greg

[Taylor]

Agreed. A picture would be heavenly.

[viking]

Bill's Blog

Good Afternoon Teams,

What happens if there aren’t six robots on the field during competition? Six trailers remain in play. We’ve created a bogie wheel to allow unattended trailers to remain in play. A third rover wheel is fitted with a bushing and mounted on the trailer tongue held in place with a clip ring (available from any office supply store. If you have a practice trailer, you might want to create a bogie wheel of your own to experience how this allows the trailer to move during competition.


14 days until Week One Regionals begin,
See you then!

[Alex Cormier]

Look at my original post, I edited it show a picture and the text from the blog.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Greg Peshek

Anyone care to elaborate for those of us who are at schools that have internet blocks on anything that is "blog" related? Danke.

-Greg

Take a KOP wheel. Add a bushing (should be plans somewhere). Put on trailer tongue. Put your standard office paper-holding ring through where the pin normally goes. Done.

[Elgin Clock]

I can see teams driving their open chassis area with ball pickup devices into that wheel by accident (of course) & it becoming an entanglement issue, disabling the robot the remainder of the match so they can't move much.

Folks who have that type of system, be careful!!!

[Richard Wallace]

With the bogey wheel attached as shown, these trailers are very easy to push around on the FRP, and will glide several feet.

Dave Brinza has some video of me pushing one -- I guess it's OK to post that somewhere now, since Bill Miller (Director of FRC, and Emperor-of-all-things-official) has 'published' FIRST's plan for unattended trailers.