Seeing that the flex wheels are only now legal for VRC, I assume that many teams wouldn’t have much experience with them (such as ours). How good are flex wheels for intakes, in comparison to a gear with foam wrapped around it for example? We don’t really have the funding to test them out, so any ad…

Both wheels are from flex wheels. The one in the front is just cut to form an L shape.

Can confirm that shore 30 (light gray) 4 inch flex wheels are OP. Got em yesterday, and I am very happy. So much grip with not much compression. It’s great. On my intakes the deformation of the wheels does not have to be extreme, and my limited experience suggests that extreme compression for much …

I would suggest also using them for your front intakes by creating flaps with them. Only as long of your coach/mentor allows of course. :slight_smile:

I mean it might work, but i deem it unneeded. Slight, uniform deformation is key with these, but then again, perhaps cutting them allows for stiff, deformation that allows for more compression? If ur budget says no, I wouldn’t risk cutting em, you may need replacements in the first place, why cu…

Making the flaps increases the amount of total surface area that can touch the ball, thus increasing the speed and probabilty of the wheel getting a grip of the ball. Overall just more efficient but I can understand what your saying as the flex wheels ( especailly 4" ) are costly.

You phrased that far better than I tried to, good point.

So the intakes that we had last year were different on each robot. The 24 bot has 5 inch wheels as the primary wheels and the 15 had the 4 inch wheels as the primary wheels. The 24 had custom machined intakes but the 15 was mainly vex parts. It is possible to make intakes like our 15 bot. I think th…

Both robots used two sizes 24" had 5" 30A that were flapped for the front funneling 24" had 4" 30A that were left normal for the back compression wheel 15" had 4" 30A that were flapped for the front funneling wheel 15" had 3" 30A that were left normal for the back compression wheel The colors c…

Okay, do you think it will make much of a difference if we use two 4" wheels instead of a 4" and 3" wheel?

I think the main reason he did that was so he can have a wider intake range. And it wouldn’t matter because the front ones are cut and compress more. So yes you can. But I feel the way Charlie did it is maybe optimal

How good are flex wheels?

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