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Originally Posted by daliberator
Hey CD!
This year in the off-season, my team is going to work on a custom drivetrain. It looks like it's gonna be a west-coast, so I threw the attached design together.
Its main structural element is 16th inch steel sheet. For main supports, it has 16th inch steel tubing of varying heights, as well as a 8th inch steel chain-guard (For lack of a better word). The bearing blocks are 8th inch steel and the are at an interference fit with their respective bearings. I didn't know exactly how much to drop the center bearings, so I just guessed at 3/16ths of an inch.
This is the first drivetrain I have attempted, so any and all feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
daliberator
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I apologize for the double post.
That's a very unique design you have their but unique designs are good! Exploring something new is a fun experience.
Before you settle on one style of drivebase, would you care to explain how your team decided that building a WCD style base was the right ones for you? What type of advantages do you see in building one? What are your design criteria(s) such as lightest, simplest, ease to build, ease to swap out parts, space efficient, etc.
Our team listed out what we wanted to see in a drivebase separate from a certain type of base and in the end we came up with a very decent solution that was extremely easy for us to build based on our immediate resources, was highly reliable considering it hasn't broken since we assembled it and put it through 6 competitions, and highly competitive as it gave is a good high speed our driver could control coupled with nice traction wheels and low gear for pushing through defenders.