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Originally Posted by RobotsThatWork
I see what you did with the low speed 
On to the actual design. It looks like in this design you can actually get rid of the idlers and still have enough room. there seems to be ~1 inch of gap between you bigger dog gear and the body of the CIM. getting rid of that idler gear would be great.
Second, we use FESTO for pneumatics, as they generously give them to us free of charge. So see if you can use a festo piston instead of the one you are currently using.
Overall looks good though. the shifter sticks out of the frame, but it should be well protected by the CIMS around it.
Ill take a closer look at it in person later. |
Perhaps in the next version, if I ever do make a third version, I'll change to a FESTO piston. I'm more use to Bimba's pistons because I've been working with them longer. As for the first stage with the idlers, I think if I want to cut out a significant amount of weight, I will look into belts as an option.
EDIT: The reason why I use idlers is because I find that there is really no possible way to not have it without the CIMs touching the gears on the upper shaft between the plates, if you were using gears.
In reply to @asid61: I just played around with the Partner Space in GrabCAD, and I made one, which contains the first and second versions of the inverted gearbox, and unfortunately a large-sized parts folder. The link to it can be found here (I think I'll upload pack-and-go zip files and STEP files later so one doesn't have to have the entire parts folder):
https://workbench.grabcad.com/workbe...WAlStxFm6c3ypj