Lego Treads on Boe-Bot

sobaman14

Hi!
I recently made treads and a mount for them to attach to a Boe-Bot with some old Legos I found, and I have gotten mixed results...
The treads will only stay on if it the Boe-Bot is on level ground, and the reason I made treads was for it to be able to travel rough terrain. I know there is a tread kit, but I would like to know how I can keep the treads on. My brother suggests moving the orange wheels back, but I'm not really sure how I can do that...
Thanks!

PS Here are some pictures:

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Post Edited (sobaman14) : 1/4/2009 12:22:27 AM GMT

John Abshier

Lego makes a rim designed to hold the treads (Item K in attached file).· You could replace the orange wheels with them.· You will also probably need to use two front wheels to make something similar to the lego rim but bigger.

John Abshier

GWJax

Like John had said "well he did not really say it but any way" the wheels are not sprockets and the treads can not hold on to the wheels. So if you can find the wheel sprockets for the tracks then you will be OK with them not falling off when moving across rough terrain.

Jax

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boe-crazy

I agree fully GWjax.

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sobaman14

Thanks!

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