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Re: Team 1902 Roller Grabber Teaser
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Re: Team 1902 Roller Grabber Teaser
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The tube is captured by not allowing the wheels to back drive, if you watch closely when the tubes are released the wheels are driven backwards. We'll make sure to have the controls in place to keep that from happening. The cool thing about the roller gripper is that it can allow for "easy" tube manipulation ala 233 in 2007. We found that this can be difficult on the points of the square and triangle but every semi circular cross section is mostly adjustable. Adam, the tools in the video are at a mentors house, who was assisting in the fabrication of the gripper. And of course this mentors house does come fully equipped with a chop saw. |
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Excellent! Looks great guys! Hopefully you make it to Einstein this year too!
Good Luck, and see you in Florida! |
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Re: Team 1902 Roller Grabber Teaser
I'm an avid believer that no shop is fully equipped unless it has a chop saw.
Also, can any of you guys expand on the Modulox system? I've been trying to find info on it, but it doesn't seem like there is much. Is it just a "universal" gearbox of sorts? |
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Re: Team 1902 Roller Grabber Teaser
Looks like an awesome prototype!
Horizontal band saw > chop saw. |
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We used it on our gripper for two purposes, to adjust the height of the rollers so we could dial in the perfect distance for the tubes as well as to adjust the gear ratios up and down a bit. It made the prototyping process quite easy. /edit Oh and Art, you speak blasphemous words sir. Red dots coming your way. |
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Re: Team 1902 Roller Grabber Teaser
We were just actually rearranging the MechE department machine shop at Iowa State.
The chop saw got stuck under a bench out of the way as everyone went straight for the horizontal bandsaw... |
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Re: Team 1902 Roller Grabber Teaser
How hard does it actually grip the tube?
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