Robot in 3 Days: Team O-RYON

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by pavchag

In order to connect the CIM to the Versaplanetary you need to cut the CIM shaft down to about 0.25 of an inch and use 8 screws to attach the gearbox to the CIM (eventhough the cim has 10s, the way the spacing works the 8s get pushed out and work). See this link with the cad (inventor) and here attached are 2 views of the setup!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/95t8ia62e2dmck9/ATDGl10KRy

KEEP IN MIND: Versaplanetary were not designed for CIMs. The weak point from our testing is the key on the CIM shaft and the gear on the output shaft (has been stripped by us)

Can you describe the loading with which you broke it? Did you extend the keyway or leave it the stock length?