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Originally Posted by pribusin
Very nice and clean drive base. I want our team to look into a chain-in-tube design this year but I've always wondered how you assemble the chain and sprockets in the tube  Care to give me some insight on the procedure? Are there access hole on the underside? Has anyone ever done this with belts? |
What we've done is loop the chains around the sprockets and then drop the entire thing down into the tube. Then slide the axles through the sprockets and the bearings over the axles. This is of course 100x easier if the tubes are not attached to the robot already.
If you are using 2 sprockets in the middle like we do we have a small piece of axle that we'll put through the two sprockets to hold them together during the drop and push that piece out with the final axle.