Wheels

24th July 2004, 12:52

Hello

I recently received two of the Red wheels from Australia. And I have to say that theyâ‚¬â„¢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** · 26th July 2004, 15:10

What size are wheels are these Ian?

Cheers
Glen

**glen** · 27th July 2004, 09:23

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.org www.robowars.org for more info (in the drill mod part).

**knightrous** · 27th July 2004, 10:22

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** · 4th October 2007, 19:34

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** · 4th October 2007, 20:53

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

**jamesb** · 5th October 2007, 10:17

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.

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