Hey, I’m on a small, new team at a liberal arts HS that doesn’t have a ton of extra parts. Neither flex wheels nor pneumatics are going to arrive in time for the next competition. Bottom line is that our intake is having trouble. We’re using treads with standoffs screwed into them and they do a go…

You can try using intake rollers or you can take 6 tooth sprockets and wrap the traction treads around them and connect them to a floating intake. A intake some other teams are using is just some rubber bands stretched onto sprockets.

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Gears with rubber bands wrapped around them are actually cracked. [image] Tad hard to see but you can see it if you look hard enough.

You could also use cut pneumatics tubing

Our current intake. [image] The loose sprockets are from previous iterations. We don’t have much time to make changes at this point but am looking into rubber bands on sprockets as that seems feasible at the moment. Thanks all.

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Intake trouble - no flex wheels

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axharrell04 November 18, 2022, 11:21pm 9

Read this and try to take inspiration from some of these staple VRC intake designs