WCP Solid Roller Wheels

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For anybody who’s gotten to test the WCP Solid Roller wheels out on a flywheel shooter already, what did you think? How were the wheels 1) Stability 2) Durability/Glazing (That might be too hard to determine this early) 3) Grip on the Power Cells 4) Consistency and 5) Overall quality/anything else I’m missing. How do they compare to fairlane wheels or colson wheels? All in all, would you recommend using them?

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Bumping this post now that more people should have received the wheels.

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We have been testing the 40A WCP Solid Roller Wheels (2’’ wide). To begin, we are running a single 775 Pro geared 1:1 on the prototype. Before we got these, we were testing the Andymark 60A stealth wheels so a lot of comparisons will be made to those as a benchmark.

To begin, the 40A wheels need to be banded using safety wire or else they expand a lot. Being solid Urethane, there were quite a bit heavier than the Stealth wheels.

We tested three different configurations today:

  1. Four Stealth Wheels
    Pros: Needed less voltage to shoot from tench to inner port, less vibration from shooter
    Cons: Lot quite a bit of RPM drop when shooting balls simultaneously, causing later balls to shoot a few feet under

  2. One Stealth Wheel on each edge, sandwiching a WCP wheel in the center
    Pros: Increased weight made it so shooting multiple balls wouldn’t affect RPM as much
    Cons: Needed to raise voltage by about 0.5 volts, a bit more vibration

  3. Two WCP Wheels
    Not sure what happened here by it wasn’t shooting as well as either of the other two variations even at 1.5 more volts. We will need to retest this.

All in all, the WCP wheels are solid shooter wheels. The shots I was getting from them were quite consistent. From the configurations we tested, we liked one stealth wheel on each edges and a 2’’ WCP Solid Roller Wheel the most. The biggest benefit of using the WCP wheel was the fact that RPM didn’t drop as much letting us shoot multiple balls quite precisely. I feel like the 60A wheels might have been better for this year’s game, we have ordered them and I will report back once we receive them. Most importantly though, I like the sound they make while shooting with them. Let me know if you want me to test anything else out with these wheels.

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I would be interested to hear the results of test 1 done with a flywheel of the same weight as a solid wheel. It sounds like the solid wheel just adds mass to the system. Maybe you can put one off to the side, out of the way of the balls but still on the same shaft to simulate this.

How much did you find they expanded? Since they were larger did the ball even end up touching the non expanding Stealth wheels in test 2?
What RPM / voltage were these run at?

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