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Re: pic: This is our robot as of last night. Alot more should get done this week now

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
He said 6WD. I'm hoping there's another border piece on the exposed side to support the other side of the tranny shaft. Otherwise.... ick. Seeing a shaft loaded like that seriously distresses me.
I plan to have a plate on the end, but did not plan to support the ends of the shafts. This was something that had also been bugging me for a while. I am thinking about making some kind of pillow block which will mount on to the side plate.

My original idea was to put the wheels as close to the gearboxes as i could so that most of the load would be on the bearings and not the shaft. Because i had never tried this before i was unsure how it would turn out.

--Daniel
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