pic: Drill transmition
 

We haven't taken ours apart. We'll take the old ones apart any day but the new ones are just plain scary. We never touched ours and after 2 regionals, a pre-ship, and exhibition event they are still working great. The new ones are a bit too complex for me and they never work they same once you take them apart. If it ain't broke, do't fix it. That's our rule for the drills.

Yup, those are the gears inside the drill . . .

So whats your point?

Yeah, we"ve taken ours apart a few times, but unintentionally. Someone would be playing with the motor, then there would be much shouting of curses and the jingle of small pieces of metal hitting the floor. On one of the first days we had opened the kit we spent at least half an hour looking for one of the pins that had fallen out because we didn"t know we were going to end up taking them out anyways...boy we felt stupid when we realized that...

It would be nice if a day working on the robot went by without taking one of those appart.... I actually just had to work on one again monday repairing the arm that we broke at BC4. So familiar with them now.

All metal. I am quite surprised that Dewalt did not throw in some plastic piece like there usually is.

I'm nowhere near that proficient (I've never successfully put one back together), but at LA, I had to deal with so many broken transmissions, it made me never want to volunteer for the Spare Parts table ever again.

bosch
 

my dad picked up two of the motor-trans assemblies from a bosch vendor he knows, and i'll tell you they are tricky beasts. i played the "fix it till its broken" game, and came out a winner twice. eventually i figured out how to properly assemble them, and they are remarkably similar to the ones in the kit, however i do believe the ones i have are a new model, and have much heavier casings.

carlo

You guys should try it its fun i have disasembled and reasembled this thing 30 or 40 times intresting little oribital geer setup i now know that is is a 3 ste orbital and shifting to second just locks two sets togeather so you dont get as much reduction, i have actualy now taken apart every motor gearbox and sensor i could find in the shop (And no! i didnt have trouble puting them back togeather)

You guys decided to take ours apart instead. I thought it was funny that our MCHS captain fixed it so fast. And I am taking apart a new one this summer (and attempting to put it back together)

Well, it wasn't working before so what else was I supposed to do?:D

If you take a peek at my white paper (In the technical section), I show how to take it apart, and put it back together....

It's really just a matter of keeping track of pieces, and it was quite fun!

Well, Good Luck, and it's not all that scary.

-Steve

Globe
 

I havent been able to take apart the globe, NO Screwes

Re: Globe
 

Just get the plasma cutters...

Or just a really-really sharp hack saw and go to town!! :yikes:

Nah not even a plasma cutter or hacksaw...

Just find a really small drill bit and a drill.....

Taking apart a Globe just requires some time.

Drill away all 3 of those roll pins that connect the Globe motor to the Globe gearbox.

(you wont get it back together....)

:-)

This picture was useful for me, I'm using it to make a Bosch motor in Inventor. I'm planning on animating each peice in 3DS Max by itself, and then combining them into one working motor.

Coco: if you get a chance, would you mind e-mailling me a copy of that Bosch motor in Pro/E, STEP, IGES format? (Address in profile, or PM me.)
Thanks.