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Originally Posted by Mk.32
Thanks for all the nice comments!
We will be at both the Fall Classic and Batb. More photos and stuff to come.
I did add in the vents, forgot about that at first heh... 
And will be also looking at some 3/16 plate instead of the 1/4; though we may just do the 1/4 because we have lots of the stuff lying around.
I had a version of this were there was two motors on top of each other, instead of just the one centered motor mount.
This was done in SolidWorks and rendered in the built in PhotoView 360.
Thanks! I do as well.  |
You'll see some cool superlight gearboxes when we eventually clean and post Encore's CAD. You can DEFINITELY run thinner than 1/4" plate here, 1/8" would probably be totally adequate.
Thinner = cheaper = lighter = less material removal (faster fabrication).
After just plain having less stuff, decreasing size is the best way to save weight.
I'd also recommend looking into the .25" face width 24DP plastic gears from SDP-si for the initial stage. They are DIRT cheap at ~$2, and mate great with the banebots 10T pinions (which are also cheap, and fit through the motor boss hole). All of Encore's gearboxes had an initial plastic stage of this size.