pic: New serve mk.1-2517

[Tyler2517]

Originally Posted by magnets

That's a really neat swerve drive. I don't think anyone's done something like this before.

A few questions/comments-

I'm assuming the really big green thing that goes in the middle of the wheels is a bearings. If not, what is it? If so, why is it so big?

Those bevel gears- where are they from? Are they strong enough? They're at the end of the reduction so they're going to try really hard to get away from each other. The little one is going to push up so you'll probably want a thrust bearing/washer there too.

The green angle to support the sides has the mounting holes too close to the edge. Making it a little bit wider around the bolt holes is cheap strength.

How is torque transferred between the bevel gear and the wheel?

What type of wheels are those?

Overall, a pretty cool iteration on swerve.

It's pretty neat to see these offseason swerve designs come back. There's usually some pretty cool ones like this!

The green thing is a spacer that lets us translate the power from the wheel with the bevel to the wheel with out. It has 12 threaded holes in it so that we can offset the bolts so the load from each one of the wheels so there is a lot less shear force(each wheel has 6 holes.)

6 holes on the gear.

The bevels are from sdtp. We are not using the stock materials and will custom make them our selves if the ones are not strongthat we can buy.
We are looking at making the bigger of the gears out of a titanium alloy most likely Ti-6Al-4V Trading a week of my summer to clean there shop in trade for the machine time and resources to make 20ish on there 5 axis cnc. We do not want 2 of the same material gears so we don't have to grease them so carpet cant get stuck in the grease.

Custom wheel 2.78 in diameter if i remember.
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