Thread: 1726 Beginning Week Three
View Single Post
  #26   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 21-01-2009, 12:03
MrForbes's Avatar
MrForbes MrForbes is offline
Registered User
AKA: Jim
FRC #1726 (N.E.R.D.S.)
Team Role: Mentor
  
Join Date: Feb 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Sierra Vista AZ
Posts: 5,983
MrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond reputeMrForbes has a reputation beyond repute
Re: 1726 Beginning Week Three
Quote:
Originally Posted by lynca View Post
This is great COTS engineering for a turret! What kind of support bearings are you using?

How much weight do you think your turret can handle ?
Right now it has some of those funky grooved bearings from a previous KOP, which are desinged to be used on metal slides. We ordered some of the new KOP wheel bearings, which should fit in place of the funky ones. See our 2009 Build photo gallery on the NERDS web page for more detailed photos.

I don't know how much weight it can handle...but it's handling about 12 lbs right now, and seems to be pretty sturdy. I dontk now how it would fare against a direct hit from something during a match...we'll have to think about that. If the robot fell over, it could be damaged.