Thread: Swerve Drive
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Re: Swerve Drive

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Originally Posted by Aren_Hill View Post
I've used bevel gears 3 times in competition and have never had a problem with them, in the above pictured setup we only had issues with the utterly ridiculous chain runs.
Looks like you took extreme care to make sure they stayed aligned—the keyed profile on the quarter-inch plates is a fantastic way of implementing that. I often worry about the torsional rigidity in the modules we occasionally see posted here.