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Inventor’s Guide insert
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motion accessories
Tank treads
will enable your robot to explore much more
demanding terrain than ordinary wheels. Tank treads
distribute a vehicle’s weight more evenly than wheels,
allowing your robot to move more easily in sand or on soft,
spongy surfaces into which wheels would sink and bog down.
This increased surface area also gives your robot more
traction for hauling heavy loads up an incline. And because
each link can grip the surface over which it’s traveling, a
robot with tank treads can more easily climb obstacles or
traverse crevasses in which wheels would get stuck.
tank tread
drive/idler wheel x 4
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Motion chapter
in your
Vex Inventor’s Guide.
tank tread kit
bogey wheel assembly x 4
bogey wheel
support screw x 12
(8-32x1")
bogey wheel support
keps nut x 12
tank tread links (2 preassembled chains )
x 85 links each (32.75" each)
single bogey
wheel assembly (tensioner) x 2
