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Re: pic: Coaxial Crab

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Originally Posted by AdamC View Post
Wow! That's epic. I like your mounting system. How do you plan to tension your chains, though? Are you going to try the Robonauts free-floating sprockets, or will you try some sort of spring-loaded idler?
There looks to be a plastic rod near the globe motor, that would probably tension the steering chain. I can't see anything in the picture to tension the drive chain though. It's entirely possible he designed the distance to be exact so that no tensioner is needed.
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