Wheels

[team_ireland]

Hello

I recently received two of the Red wheels from Australia. And I have to say that they€™re very very nice. They are very easy to mount and very grippy for off the shelf wheels. They cost 4 auzzy dollars, which in Pounds is about 1.50. Now the only problem is you cant get them in England.

So after talking with a few of my auzzy pals I came up with the Idea of importing some from Australia. I was thinking that about just getting some for me but considering how easy to use they are I thought others might be interested.

So if you are please contact me either post on the forum here or e-mail me at the address on my profile. We worked it out that for two wheels from Australia it will cost about 10 dollars or 4pounds roughly but obviously the more we order the cheaper postage on each becomes.

So please let me know.

Regards
Ian

[armadrillo]

Wheels

What size are wheels are these Ian?

Cheers
Glen

[team_ireland]

Wheels

about 40mm wide and roughly 4 inches diamter.

Regards
Ian

[glen]

Wheels

the wheels are 95mm tall and 30mm wide.

good wheels but be warned now - they wear out fast and if you dont mod them right they well strip - http://www.robowars.orgwww.robowars.org for more info (in the drill mod part).

[knightrous]

Wheels

Lol, they only wear out on robots that insist on trying to push people around the arena and when they cannot push them they sit there and smoke the tyres, draining the batteries and getting the speed controllers hot for now reason Tim has had 4 of them on KO and I believe he is yet to change them, and his machine is a pushbot from hell.

The ones we have on Annihilation have lasted over 12 battles and have only lost 1mm from when I was forced to play pushy bot

[psycho_fling]

Wheels

hi all

i want to try and make my bot work both ways up, thought about increasing wheel size is this the only way? my robot is 90mm tall and currently has 100mm wheels, but thought if i did increase the wheel diamter id have a really big ground ground clearence

the motors with james b mounts have their centres at 30mm up the side, would it be better to keep the old wheels and change the mounts/ (modify)

thanks alex

[jamesb]

Wheels

adding a spacer under the mounts, is the cheapest way. some polypro of required thickness for example.

[psycho_fling]

Wheels

would 10mm hdpe do the trick? or another idea could i use loads of nuts or washer on longer bolts?

alex

[jamesb]

Wheels

with just 5mm wheel protrusion top and bottom, you need to be near perfect on your spacer thickness. 10mm sounds close, but adding 10mm of washers will add a lot of wobble to the mounts. maybe 10mm HDPE then one or two washers to tune it?
Drop me an email if you still have problems, ill see if I can find a half hour to machine up some polypro spacers for you, to the correct thickness.

[kronicstorm]

Wheels

Dose anyone have any good sights where I could get some 5 inch/125mm Wheels.

Or have any other Ideas about it.

[john]

Wheels

http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-bin/discus/board-profile.cgi?action=view_profile&profile=jamesvenom-usershttp://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-...ction=view_pro file&profile=jamesvenom-users

http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-bin/discus/board-profile.cgi?action=view_profile&profile=grant_plou ghbot-usershttp://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-...ction=view_pro file&profile=grant_ploughbot-users

email one of these guys ( there brothers )

they sell/make the blue wheels alot of feathers use and i think there 125mm

i think theres a pic of my profile of what they look like but we added the extra black stuff on as we needed more height but i think u can see the blue wheels