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Question Re: Baxter Bomb Squad 2014 ~ Nighthawk

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Originally Posted by JTN View Post
The model shown is our 2014 model. The CAD models for the 2014 season will be available following the World Championship upon request. Unfortunately, our swerve modules cannot be purchased from any vendor such as AndyMark as they were designed and manufactured by our team. They are the result of 8 years of development and much frustration. The part shown is only half of the equation however, as the modules must be programmed.

-John Taylor Novak
Your team has been kind enough to share the design of your swerve and describe how it works when I have visited in your pits. When thinking about it, I have always been unsure about a manufacturing aspects of your design.

How do you get alignment of the "tower" to the wheel support structure? How do you assure center to center alignment? and then how do you assure perpendicularity of the tower to its mating piece at the bottom. Is it just a matter of being very careful with conventional tooling, do you somehow machine it as one assembly or is there some other hidden trick you can reveal?

I would think this would be particularly important, doubly so because of your integral, custom bearing assembly.