Tired of those crappy red wheels from bunnings?
want to step up to the "next level"?
All new from the firey pits of robot combat.
At last wheels designed for drill motors and gearboxes featuring exclusive non-patented "squigyness" technoligy for gearbox wellness.
Featuring a solid aluminium hub lathed, drilled, tapped and countersunk sourounded by Kevlar re-enforcing leading out into a tough yet "squidgy" urithane 50mm thick providing shock absorbtion for the delicates of your gearboxes and a whole bucketload of traction.

hows my spiel? do i get the job with danoz yet?

at the moment we are looking for "expressions of interest" estimated RRP will be around $25.

mmmm pictures.





for full size views (mmmm pretty)
http://baltimore.serverindo.net/%7Ejake/robotwars/marketplace/Side%20View.jpg

http://baltimore.serverindo.net/%7Ejake/robotwars/marketplace/Top%20view.jpg

oh yeah did I mention waterproof to 50 meters and they make great gifts?

specs are
20mm wide (about the same contact width as a red wheel)
98mm diamiter (little bigger than a red wheel, but the "squidgyness" drops it a mm or 2 with a 12kg bot on 2 wheels)

looks like about 2sq cm of contact with the ground when under load mmmm, and they get this knarly looking texture after it has been running around for a while.

relativistic "squidgyness" measurement is i can deform the wheel "rim" by about 1cm when i press the hub in as hard as i can with both hands, so its about halfway between glass and a rubber band.

weight is a *little* more than a red wheel
red wheel is 150g by our scales
ours is 166g

NEWS FLASH
wheels now have added funkyness in the form of Blue w00t

Full Sized Funkyness
http://baltimore.serverindo.net/%7Ejake/robotwars/marketplace/Blue.jpg
weight by our shiny new 1 gram scales is 177-180 grams

NEW NEWZ and contrary to the rumor this is the good kind.
colour chart is online.


full sized funkyness is at
http://baltimore.serverindo.net/%7Ejake/robotwars/marketplace/urithane%20colour%20chart.jpg
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Last edited by Valen on Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:42 pm; edited 6 times in total

ill take a pair or two, just after i get those details i PM'd you with (about the size and squishyness )
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www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
http://www.youtube.com/user/HyzerGlen - Videoooozzz

Are they 25 dollars each or for a pair.

I may invest in a pair if need be.

Looks great though. U and Russell always produce top notch work.
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Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics

$25 each

that one was from an old batch of urithane which is why its so dark
the production ones should be "pretty clear" TM

we may even go with kevlar for the wrap around the hub. just for the cool factor ;->
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noice, do you reckon you could cover the sides of the wheels with fibreglass or kevlar? im worried that those wheels may sort of be a little flexible in the side to side motion if you get what i mean.
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www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
http://www.youtube.com/user/HyzerGlen - Videoooozzz

we can if its a problem but we dont think that it will be
(hence cobra being suggested as a "crash test dummy" ;->)
its about as hard on wheels as you can get in the sydney bots i think
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Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets

ill trust that opinion then, bring forth the squishy wheels
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www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
http://www.youtube.com/user/HyzerGlen - Videoooozzz

we should be getting some more urithane tommorow morning so wednsday we should have some wheels.
whens a good time for you to do some testing?
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Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets

err well the robot will be together by sunday.

i just need to get a radio setup happening. ill try get the AM working well enough for some testing. so yeah this sunday sounds good.
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www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
http://www.youtube.com/user/HyzerGlen - Videoooozzz

If its the same stuff as whats on scooter wheels i dont think itl stand up to saw bots very well

Not that im knocking your idea cos you have a good thing going there
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Tim Team Reaper.

heh well if your putting your wheels on the outside of the bot you deserve to have them sawed!
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www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
http://www.youtube.com/user/HyzerGlen - Videoooozzz

we can bring our radio
these may be simmilar to the wheels for olympic bot too ;->
we should probbly have another get togther about that see what has percolated and what we can do with nicks new mill. mmmm billet bot
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Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets

quote:

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Originally posted by Glen:
heh well if your putting your wheels on the outside of the bot you deserve to have them sawed!

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we didnt seem to have any problem with whatever that pile of bolts brett had was. object of the game is not to get cut in the first place.

after all our rounds our urithane treaded wheels are showing only a few minor nicks in them.
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Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets

I stand corrected
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Tim Team Reaper.