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NabilD314
21-01-2003, 19:48
Has any team's new drill motors come broken? Team 314's drill motors came with the plastic brush holder's broken. :confused:
Adam Y.
21-01-2003, 20:23
Yeah I know those brush leads are %%%%. They break very easily when any force is applied to them. The odd fact is that the motors still work broken.
ejthe4th
25-01-2003, 09:43
yeah, we've had the same type of problem with our drill motors. last night when we were driving one of the brushes came off and destroyed all the fan blades and broke the plastic piece that holds it in :mad:
Walter_Jr
25-01-2003, 09:48
we have had no problems with ours yet and he have ran our tracks many times!!!!

This is our configuration for our drive-train

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=3459&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=3&trows=4&quiet=verbose
NabilD314
25-01-2003, 10:33
The fan blades broke on ours too when the wires came off.
Adam Y.
25-01-2003, 11:42
we have had no problems with ours yet and he have ran our tracks many times!!!!
now show me a picture of the wire leads. Hmm shock mounting the motors is probably a must.
LaurenH
25-01-2003, 12:14
One of our drill motors are broken too. What are you guys doing about?
Gadget470
25-01-2003, 12:38
The back clip snapped apart when a very minimal force was applied by one of the mentors reattaching a connector.
BillyGoats
25-01-2003, 13:53
Yes, walter_jr i agree. No problems here. Hrmm your drive train looks very similar to our =p.
Walter_Jr
25-01-2003, 13:57
I think they are just not being careful with the motors..... we dropped one and it still worked.. thnk god...
BillyGoats
25-01-2003, 14:03
yes yes i remeber that! omg i thought a new hole was going to be punched in to a wall that was funny tho =)
Gadget470
25-01-2003, 14:25
Originally posted by Walter_Jr
I think they are just not being careful with the motors..... we dropped one and it still worked.. thnk god...

Ours broke when a mentor was pushing a connector on. The motor still works, but the tab on the back is b0rk3d
Walter_Jr
25-01-2003, 14:28
We left the wires that came with it on it... I don't know why you would want to change the wires anyways
Adam Y.
25-01-2003, 20:01
We left the wires that came with it on it... I don't know why you would want to change the wires anyways
Your supposed to because the wires aren't the proper gauge.
K.Shaw
25-01-2003, 20:49
well not to name any names but a person on our team broke the transmission off r drill motor within the first 15sec lol but not to worry it was fixed in minutes
team222badbrad
25-01-2003, 21:17
Oops we broke our first drill motor today.... Some top secret part of our robot hit the one brush, pushed it in, and broke the brush holder and all the fan blades..... GOOD THING THEY ONLY COST 18 bucks

We also over-tightend the plastic motor mounts and they broke in our first week.
Ricardo@314
25-01-2003, 21:31
I think that the people on the 314 build crew must have really tried hard to break them because ours havent broke yet. Nabil, Matt, Ghram stop whining.<(x)>
GrahamS314
25-01-2003, 23:39
Note: The above post is from a disgruntled animator on the Megatron Oracles team 314. He has chosen to post rediculous replies because he realizes that he should've stayed on the build crew. Disregard his post.