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Re: Designing a climbing mechanism for 2013... a humbling experience
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Originally Posted by EricPalmatier
Finally, my first climbing prototype, which is no longer the way I want to go about it, had quite the mechanical failure. I thought I would share this to illustrate just what kinds of forces you are dealing with when trying to use an arm to 'curl' the weight of the robot. The shaft was a .5" 4140 steel shaft, acting as the output of a 5-stage AndyMark GEM planetary gearbox giving us a reduction of 666:1. Perhaps I should of known it was destined for failure based off of the reduction. (note: it curled 178 pounds before failing)
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What was the output attached to?
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