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Re: Minibot Motor Press Fit

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Originally Posted by TerryS View Post
Are these legal minibot materials? Do they fall under "S. Mechanical fasteners"?
I would argue that the are indeed mechanical fasteners. However you could always just make them out of aluminium. McMaster provides drawings for their parts and sometimes even CAD which makes replicating them, whether it is to use a different material or to save some money, quite easy.

If you made them out of aluminium you could be totally sure that they were legal and you could modify the design a bit to mesh easily with the system you already want to work with. The nice thing about the "clamp on" is that you don't have to be as precise with your machining, press fits can be tricky, but with a clamp on collar you can be off by quite a bit more and make up for it by tightening the bolt a bit more.

You could easily adapt the idea of a clamp on collar to make a clamp on wheel...

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