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Re: Buggy BAG Motors

We made a couple of different types of spacers to play around with, but all of them worked. The simplest one was simply a 3D printed "washer" that was a tight slip fit inside the motor plate and on the boss of the RS550. We also made a more complex part that additionally piloted the RS550/Motor Plate assembly to the gearbox itself, but this didn't seem any better/worse.

Dustin will post the drawings as a white paper.

Runout in the RS550 shafts sounds like it is the main culprit, and would explain the vibration issues we see when the shaft alone provides piloting.