Roller Intakes

64540A · April 4, 2020, 3:57pm

So I was looking at some reveals from last year and had a question. I saw that 169 shaved the teeth on the sprockets of their roller intakes.Does anybody know why?

64540A · April 4, 2020, 4:02pm

929U also did it

Railgunawesome · April 4, 2020, 4:09pm

My guess is that it was probably for looks, since I dont really see an advantage to shaving them

vexreally · April 4, 2020, 4:11pm

It was most likely done to prevent ball jamming. By keeping the teeth the balls have a possibility to get caught in them and prevent the balls from going up the intake. Shaving them off makes it smooth and greatly reduces that ability

akadali · April 4, 2020, 5:00pm

929U shaved the teeth of the sprocket so they could intake balls even if they were contacting the sprocket, I’m assuming 169 did the same.

Zach_929U · April 4, 2020, 5:48pm

The top sprocket was shaved because of space, the teeth would have hit the bar above the intake if they were not shaved. On 169’s robot I believe that they were shaved so they could intake while the robot was pressed against the wall.

Also, they look very nice.

system · April 4, 2021, 5:49pm

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