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Unread 29-10-2014, 23:53
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Re: pic: Concept 6W Drive Train

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Originally Posted by Infinity2718 View Post
Center live axle getting bent and wobbly a few times (took a while to replace, the dead axles performed better imo)
Usually you'd use a high strength aluminum alloy here or even steel, what did your team use?

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bearing block plates hard to get at to loosen
This seems to be a result of where you're running your chains from. On most of the WCDs I've seen the chain runs are actually on the inside of the robot with the chains coming off a sprocket inside of the gearbox itself. Of course you can really do it any way you want, but as a result of sprockets on the outside yes your plates will be more difficult to get to.

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Originally Posted by Infinity2718 View Post
gear box cantilevering off a few bolts seemed sloppy
What about it seemed sloppy?

With all that being said, 1x1 drives are perfectly valid. The only thing I would comment on is that some of your upper structure seems unnecessary. Maybe you're using the outer upper level for bumper supports, which is fine, but the inner upper level that holds up the gearbox could probably be replaced with something like this. Depends on what you were trying to achieve with it.

Also, I'm not sure if I would trust those vertical gussets you have going on with impacts. But I could be wrong. Who knows.
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