pic: 57's frame is coming along

[Kevin Sevcik]

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[Owen Busler]

What are the dimensions of those pneumatic wheels?

Owen

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Owen Busler

What are the dimensions of those pneumatic wheels?

Owen

7.65" (200mm) diameter. They are Andymark hubs with the black version of the same tires used by AndyMark.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Those are 8" wheels. To head off the inevitable next question, that bit of framing is about 13" wide and 15" long.

[Aidan H.]

Just wondering (we have been working through our first year of a riveted WCD), how are you planning to run chain with those 2in tall cross members in the space between axles? Are you going to use extra large sprockets, outer chain, or individual wheel motors? Or are you dreaming up some fancy chain routing?

Also, if you are going to be running chain, are you planning on #25? We learned the hard way that it might not be strong enough for flying over defenses, flat out shattering a few links. We know "flying" over them is probably not best for any drivetrain, it'll inevitably happen a few times even if drivers are careful, but if a drivetrain can't handle that, there's going to be failures.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Aidan H.

Just wondering (we have been working through our first year of a riveted WCD), how are you planning to run chain with those 2in tall cross members in the space between axles? Are you going to use extra large sprockets, outer chain, or individual wheel motors? Or are you dreaming up some fancy chain routing?

Also, if you are going to be running chain, are you planning on #25? We learned the hard way that it might not be strong enough for flying over defenses, flat out shattering a few links. We know "flying" over them is probably not best for any drivetrain, it'll inevitably happen a few times even if drivers are careful, but if a drivetrain can't handle that, there's going to be failures.

I can't speak for Kevin, but I'd probably be giving chain-in-tube a look for this configuration.

[evanperryg]

Originally Posted by Aidan H.

Just wondering (we have been working through our first year of a riveted WCD), how are you planning to run chain with those 2in tall cross members in the space between axles? Are you going to use extra large sprockets, outer chain, or individual wheel motors? Or are you dreaming up some fancy chain routing?

Also, if you are going to be running chain, are you planning on #25? We learned the hard way that it might not be strong enough for flying over defenses, flat out shattering a few links. We know "flying" over them is probably not best for any drivetrain, it'll inevitably happen a few times even if drivers are careful, but if a drivetrain can't handle that, there's going to be failures.

We've done the WCD, riveted chassis, and chain-in-tube before. With this, I'd probably just resign to putting the chains on the wheel side. Big sprockets means chain will be dragging on the defenses, which is definitely not what you want. However, with chain-in-tube, if something goes wrong, it's a nightmare to fix.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Aww drat, a serious question. I was hoping to string people along for a bit longer. This is actually the frame for our ball intake, with 8" pneumatics outside instead of 4" colsons inside.

In answer to your actual question, our chassis is also 6wd west coast pneumatics., still on 1x2. Our usual solution is wheels outside belts inside. Any inner cross pieces are bolted to the top of the wheel rails. A belt on a 30 tooth pulley will just barely sneak underneath the top of a 1x2. With smaller wheels, we'd run a smaller pulley, but a 24 tooth on 8" wheels would be trouble. I'm mildly concerned about 9mm wide belts on the 30s as it is. We're going to seriously exercise things and see if we need to move up to 15mm wide.

I know other options are to make a belly pan and run belts just above that, or square up your frame with cross pieces fore and aft of the belt paths.

If you drastically over size your belts, you could probably get away with running them around cross pieces that would need removing to replace the belts if I did that, I'd also leave 2 spares also trapped around the cross pieces and ready to slide over and replace a broken belt. And make sure the cross piece is removable over a lunch break.

As for chain, it's been a while since we've had a chain drive. Maintenance on chain drives was trying and failures were costly. We switched to belts a few years back and haven't looked back.

[s_forbes]

Looks eerily similar to ours.

[Lexlukener]

Can I ask where you got the black version of the andymark pneumatic wheels?

[Kevin Sevcik]

The interwebs. (Amazon, specifically)

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

The interwebs. (Amazon, specifically)

Have you found any issues in initial testing that shows a scuffing problem with carpet?

-Brando

[Bertman]

Hi Kevin,

I would be interested to know how "bouncy" they are at different psi

[roboLovr123]

ROFL

[Kevin Sevcik]

we're getting our actual chassis together with those wheels weds and should be doing some driving on saturday. (This week's build schedule is interrupted by my dad retiring on Thursday)

So I can have answers to performance questions around then.