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Re: My robot, Hormes

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
Very nice! Definitely able to do more than cruise over the grass. Now all you need is an automatic deer finder, and it'll chase them away if they try to eat the landscaping!
My uncle could have used that a week before Christmas, actually... Only the good trees die young. ...or something like that.

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I do have a question: I read that you cut PVC spacers to mate the wheels with the sprockets. Did you cut one for each bolt, or one big one (say, 4" diameter) to accommodate all the bolts?
After racking my brain and searching our garage for spacers for each bolt and a way to reliably cut them to the same length, I found some 2" PVC. It fits inside the bolt pattern with very little wiggle room and, being PVC, is cheap and cuts easy in a power miter saw! Hooray square ends!

I also went back and grabbed the attached image from the sketchup model and added it to the LMR post.
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