Using a turret? Whatre your ideas on elevator design?

[Siri]

We used a friction drive in Lunacy: roughtop plaction wheel against a friction-taped lazy susan. This drive worked well (better than the hopper screw itself) and was nice if anything ever got jammed in the intake.

[donnie99]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Moving onto another part of the turret, any ideas on how to power/motorize the lazy susans? All I've heard is make your own custom large sprocket. Seeing as how that really isn't an option for my team, any team have any household solutions for this?

- Sunny G.

Our team during the 2006 season was able to make an award winning rotating turret (mentioned in a F.I.R.S.T. book) that was able to spin 340*, and tracked the target. This was extremely hard to make, taking almost 4 weeks of build to perfect the movements, and when it came to competitions, our drive team was working against the robot. While our drivers tried to line up for shooting, the bot would turn the turret to far to either side. We decided this year to have a stationary shooter and use the drive system to align our shooter.