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While your at Sears exchanging that busted ratchet for a free new one (<3 craftsman) pick up a breaker bar. When your putting a huge lever arm on a ratchet, you're really concentrating all that force on the little pin or ball inside that makes the **click-click-click** when you rotate the tool. To a point this is okay, but if you over do it you kill the ratchet. Breaker bars have no such parts and will not break quite so easily. I have a 36" Craftsman 1/2" BB, and a can of PB Blaster that *always* works :D Good luck |
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I searched through the threads a bit and couldn't find anything on this, so I decided to post it here. Our team is also working on using the 3 speed dewalts for our robot next season. The only thing we are concerned about is if the transmissions are shift on the fly or not. Some of the mentors are really questioning this because of noises we hear between 2nd and 3rd gear. How often can these be shifted while in while in motion? If any, what problems have occurered and what should we do to prevent the problems?
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Getting the chuck off was easy, once I had the right tools, and was turning the right way! Attached is a pic of the tool I used.
Another question: For those of you who didn't use the third stage, what wheel size and sprocket ratio did you use? We're planning on using an 8 inch wheel, which I think will require approximately a 60 tooth sprocket. Is this correct? |
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We've now made the sun gear adapters and built a test drivetrain with 2 DeWalt/CIMs. The adapter works great, except that I didn't account for the small indent in the center of the back of the sun gear. This allowed the gear and adapter to slide up the shaft ~1/8, to the point where it would shift all the way into 3rd gear reliably. A couple of small washers to fill in the indent solved the problem.
I'm now working on shifting software. Are there tricks to making it work optimally? Joe P. mentions the neutral zone and "Software syncronization" - how does this work? Thanks! |
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