Thread: Manipulator Torque (A Bit Scary for Us)
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Unread 15-01-2008, 22:17
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Re: Manipulator Torque (A Bit Scary for Us)
You may want to beef up the steel that you wish to use as an axle if i understand you correctly is what you are asking. Last year our team (2028) had a claw at the end of our design of arm tha only weighed 6 pounds, and we used the denso window motor with a 1 to 4 ratio (i think, at least it was for every 4 turns of the motor there was 1 turn for the pulley at the top) with pulleys and timing belts. Our axels were made out of .5 in solid steel. After about 3 matches, we noticed that we had BENT ALL of our axels! If you can find a better material than steel, i think you would be better off...

just throwing that out there...