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233 Wheels

By: ducttapedude
New: 09-01-2009 22:18
Updated: 09-01-2009 22:18
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233 Wheels

After much off-season work, years of thought, testing and prototyping, team 233 has chosen these wheels for our robot this year.

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09-01-2009 22:49

MrForbes


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Truly a work of art! What coefficient of friction do you get with them, on textured gelcoated fiberglass, for example?



09-01-2009 22:49

Thermal


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Any certain reason you guys decided to go with these wheels over your regular KOP wheels or AM Plactions?

Tis' an interesting choice, do tell the benefits!



09-01-2009 22:50

David Brinza


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Did the pink color fade prematurely?



09-01-2009 22:56

nuggetsyl


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Its a funny angle because they do not look as wide in the pic. But it could also be the lack of sleep i am getting.



09-01-2009 23:06

smurfgirl


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Wow, what an innovative solution! I can guarantee that no other team will have wheels like that

At first when I saw the title of this, I was debating whether it meant two hundred and thirty three wheel, or the wheels belonging to FRC 233.



09-01-2009 23:10

lenny8


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this is true innovation dean would be proud.



09-01-2009 23:11

hillale


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does anyone else wish they gave you the option of different sized rover wheels?



09-01-2009 23:19

Josh Goodman


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NO WAY! We have the same ones! I feel truly proud to be sharing the same wheels with 233



10-01-2009 00:08

andrew348


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I was wondering who was going to do this first



10-01-2009 00:30

A_Reed


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Did the pink color fade prematurely?
hmmm...I wonder if acetal/delrin would accept a dye bath like some other plastics will. Without changing the characteristics of the wheel anyway outside of the rules of course



10-01-2009 01:27

dlavery


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Given that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," I am sure that you will be quite flattered to know that many, many teams will be copying your wheel design.

-dave




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10-01-2009 01:52

bduddy


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Huh-I always thought they had "corners" between the sidewalls and flat "tread", like the old ones. I'm guessing this change is to provide a smaller contact patch, therefore generating less friction?



10-01-2009 03:41

danshaffer


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do they come in other colors?



10-01-2009 06:24

GaryVoshol


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Did the pink color fade prematurely?
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do they come in other colors?
For the right price, I'm sure AndyMark would do a special run with non-friction dye in the material.

And posted by ducttapedude - 233 is right on the cutting edge of FRC technology this year.



10-01-2009 06:46

Doug Leppard


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If these wheels are good enough for Pink they are good enough for Exploding Bacon. It is a gamble but Pink is never wrong, we are going with those wheels also.

Thanks for the heads up.



10-01-2009 11:04

Dan Richardson


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Here is my obligatory sarcastic yet mildly funny comment.



10-01-2009 11:11

A_Reed


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For the right price, I'm sure AndyMark would do a special run with non-friction dye in the material.
Or you could take a piece of Acetal/Delrin and attempt to dye it in a dye bath to see if it takes, if it does you could make you wheels as pink (or any other color) as you want. I am not sure of how legal it would be within the rules, but it would be an interesting showpiece regardless. Maybe slap them on an off season demo bot.



10-01-2009 11:17

Jibs


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Tch, my wheels are better than that.



10-01-2009 14:54

jsasaki


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isn't that just the regular 2009 KOP wheel that you can use or do you get options



10-01-2009 15:15

David Brinza


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isn't that just the regular 2009 KOP wheel that you can use or do you get options
Welcome to CD, where sarcasm and mis-information abounds...

(It is a KOP wheel).



10-01-2009 15:37

Tetraman


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Wait till you see my team's speed controlers!



10-01-2009 15:42

BandChick


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Here is my obligatory sarcastic yet mildly funny comment.
Man, Dan, you took the words right out of my mouth.... ~_^



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