Tips on making the smoothest and fastest roller for TT

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First, please send some pictures of your rollers so we can help you out.

In short, its all about compression. Make sure you have the correct compression, enough so that it can easily push up cubes, but wide enough for them to restrict the intaking of cubes. While doing so, make sure that they cant bend out so the cubes to push the roller out and become uncompressed.

Additionally, take a look at your sprocket sizes and intaking angle to optimize the efficiency of the intake. Use sprockets that provide compression towards your specific design and note that the shallower the tray angle is, the easier it is to intake cubes.

Take a look at these posts:

@Doctortictac

Hello all! I made a new intake design for compression(in this video (https://youtu.be/XYdanzbIQEU), and it works for compression, but the intakes have to take it at a specific angle(right on). Is there any way I can optimize these intakes for schlorking cubes? My tray is 6 inches

@ThirdDegree

Now that the meta designs are relatively evident, I see both advanced trays and tray db4s remaining prevalent for quite some time. Both of these designs use intake rollers to pull cubes onto a tray. This begs the question, what kind of intake roller is best? This post is a general purpose question to see what’s working well for the community.

Intake rollers need to provide enough compression to intake 11 cubes (in extreme instances) while also allowing stack deploys to remain unaffected. What is the ideal length of flap, size/ratio of sprocket, and frequency of flap (links between flaps) to achieve this most efficiently?

@Sylvie

I figured out a simple and easy lock mechanism for intakes to fix nearly all compression issues. The tricky balancing game between strength, being able to bend the intakes back, the bands not snapping, and the arm spreading when the tilter is tilted forwards is solved by a simple lock as seen below or on youtube
https://youtu.be/yz4coBYe3sU