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The wheel mounts and drill motor couplers were supplied by Small Parts. I hope that someone will at least post a design so that teams can build these, if they aren't supplied.
In our first year, they were not available and we had all manner of difficulties with mounting the drill motor to the wheels. I think many other teams had these same problems, hence the couplers.
We actually made a hub piece last year so that we could use the skyway wheels. We knocked out the bearings and machined some of the spokes down to give us flush surfaces. Although I made the parts on a rotary table, they can mostly be done on a lathe with a template for the hole pattern made on a mill.
If anyone is interested, I'll try to pull up the drawings and post them.
Then again, who knows? We may not have drill motors or skyway wheels in the kits this year.
Andrew
Team 356
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