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[Cash4587]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

In my experience, the center of a robot can get crowded to the point where it's nice to be able to pull the wheels with the axles in place, which is why I asked. Also, you can't pull the axle on the direct-driven wheel without pulling the gearbox.

Just something to think about.

No, you can pull the axles out, like out of the robot, like not into the robot, like out of the frame side, where the wheels are. As for the one on the gearbox, that is a different story. However, the only reason my team pulled off our wheels this year was to change the belts on the DT, which was because of ratcheting due to machining error. If we would have used tensioners on the system, we would have never needed to pull the wheels off. Yeah it's a "nice to have" but if this system ends up working, it will be far more effective than what we used in 2014.