pic: Team 1403 - 2006 Robot

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I like the delrin wheels, but I still think they are too big

We went with 6 inch diameter because of a few reasons, first off we had it. Also I was looking into doing a 4" or 5" wheel but we opted out because we wanted faster acceleration as well the whole ground clearance issue with getting on the ramp and picking up balls off the ground easily.

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

Looks nice. It's a good thing you are slightly underweight - you'll probably have to install a guard over the outer part of the shooter wheel.

I'm interested in your pillow blocks. I can't tell from the photo- are they aluminum? Stock or custom? They look much lighter in weight than the ones we use - like 2-3 pounds worth for all 6.

Best of luck to you.

Yeah, right now we have a small guard on the front of the wheel, as you can see here maybe we'll enlargen it, we are also considering using our extra weight to add bumpers, but thats yet to be decided.

The pillow blocks are custom 1/4" aluminum. They have a 1" bore and we shrunk that down with a brass bushing and then used 3/4" keyed steel shafts (we had issues last year with 1/2" steel axles, so we decided to beef it up this year) I'll try to get a better picture of the wheels mounted sometime after we get the robot in NJ next week.

Thanks for the feed back and See you guys in Trenton, Boston, and Atlanta!