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Re: pic: VR-001: A Jersey Voltage Simple Hex Frame

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No, you can pull the axles out, like out of the robot, like not into the robot, like out of the frame side, where the wheels are.
You can do that, but then they come all the way out of the bearing blocks (and ostensibly any sprockets you have on the other side are then loose, too).

Not saying you should change your design; it's a minor concern. It's just that I've spent a lot of time servicing drives, and little details like this are worth thinking about, if nothing else.

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Here is the DT with added support to the bump outs.
Cool, that certainly would be harder to break.
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