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Re: what wheels to use

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Originally Posted by Tom I

If you go with any tread type wheels, definitely go with the rough top tread. From my team's experience, the rough top out performs the wedge top in all respects.

Though sometimes, you may want the "worse" tread on your robot. Say hypothetically wedgetop wheels had slightly less, but not very less, traction (I don't actually know, I'm assuming based on your above statement). Then putting wedgetop on the outer wheels and rough on the inner wheels would supplement a drop center 6wd's turning ability.

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