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Re: 2006: Did anyone use the Mabuchi motor?
We put the Mabuchi on a 5:1 BaneBots transmission to direct-drive our front ball sweeper. The mechanism was just a 14" piece of 1/2" I.D. PVC pipe, cross-drilled in several places and thread thru with cable ties to form whiskers. It was supported by face mounting the gearbox on one end and a bolt on the other end, with bronze bearings pressed into the pipe on each end. The motor end was locked to the shaft with a set-screw. Total weight including the motor and gearbox was 1.4#.
The pipe was damaged in collisions a few times, but the motor/gearbox combinations never gave us a problem.
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Richard Wallace
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 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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