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[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Panthers 3181

How did you bend your tube and What material did you use?

1/2" EMT Conduit and a conduit bender. The bender is about $40 dollars and 10 feet of conduit is under $2 for us locally. We bought about 60 ft so we could screw up a bunch as we learned to bend it well.

Originally Posted by philso

After searching CD, I found a few instances of the same sort of thing happening with the larger Vex mecanums though they seem to have occurred after much more use and abuse.

We had read those as well, we had assumed we would be replacing the wheels after our two regionals and before championship/off-seasons. I didn't expect to have to change a wheel after one week. It's partly our fault, we wanted to believe.

Originally Posted by Electronica1

I am starting to notice a trend here, the people who are having issues with the vex mecanum wheels are the people who are using 8 motors on their drive. (the only instances I can think of are Boom Done and Spectrum)

That's interesting, I don't see why that would cause the problem, but I'm also done putting time and thought into Mecanum wheels. I wasn't on the Mecanum bandwagon before this season and I definitely jumped clean off of it last night. Maybe we'll find out it it was our fault, I don't know but for now it's not worth the hassle.