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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

Must say its an excellent design Paul, Props on that!
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

All heat aside, I love the transmission. I also like the information in this post, I most likely would have missed the shaft being metric with out it. Being responsible last year for getting 3/64" key ways cut by mistake in a pair of 30t #25 sprockets, (was supposed to be 5/8" bore with 3/16" key) we used the T shaped key way and adjusted. I took one look at the casting and said wow, custom die cast and low cost to make so many, somebody did a great job with the over all design. After my first read of this post, I looked at the output shaft and thought, Cool start with 3/4" hex stock and go from there if you want to get to 5/8 final out. My second read finds use a metric drill and metric broach, if you need a different final sprocket. Thanks Paul for the great work and the learning that has flowed from it. Tom Cooper
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

Those gear boxes are are gold to our team. We only have hand tools and very little cash. Thanks for your time and effort.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

I agree with Mark, FIRST should have given us some heads-up before custom boring the sprockets and making it costly to upgrade our drive system.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

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I agree with Mark, FIRST should have given us some heads-up before custom boring the sprockets and making it costly to upgrade our drive system.
I had really hoped all the moaning about the sprockets would stop now that FIRST is selling the sprockets you need for $20 each.

Everyone who has complained seems to be forgetting that FIRST and other individuals bent over backwards to make sure that EVERY team could have a driving robot. They didn't have to. And not only did they develop the gearboxes and frame, they compiled a fantastic guide to using them, and possible upgrades.

FIRST made an option available to you. You don't have to use it. You don't have to spend the $40. Since their solution costs so much, why don't you develop your own? I can tell you right now, you won't be able to. You'll spend hundreds of dollars to make the same thing FIRST did, and who knows how reliable it will be.

Seriously guys, no matter what FIRST does, there's always something being griped about. As has been said many times in the last few weeks, if you're going to complain, do something about it. Offer your services to FIRST. Find a supplier that will donate sprockets to FIRST. This is a lot like voting. You have no right to complain about our political system if you don't vote. If you don't do anything to resolve what you're complaining about, DON'T COMPLAIN.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

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What!! The kit isn't a lego set!!!¿?¿?¿?¿? You actually have to build and design something? This is terrible!!

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This is relly ghetto but i have dome something similar before and it worked. Run the gearboxes at full speed. Get a piece of coarse sandpaper, a pair of gloves and sand that sucker down.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

Four wheel drive is simple. Its called sprockets on the other two wheels, and one chain with a tensioner.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

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This is relly ghetto but i have dome something similar before and it worked. Run the gearboxes at full speed. Get a piece of coarse sandpaper, a pair of gloves and sand that sucker down.
Are you referring to making the sprockets fit on the shaft easier or something like that? We use a tool I call the "vertical lathe" (there actually is such a thing, but this is not it). We pop the shaft into the chuck of the drillpress, spin it up and put a nice file, sandpaper, or preferable emery cloth to it. Works every time. Slightly less ghetto.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

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You could also turn down the output shafts to 5/8" on your handy dandy lathe. You could also mill a 3/16" keyway on the opposite side of the shaft from the existing 5mm keyway.

-Joel
Keep in mind now, the most advanced piece of machinery we have is a drill press... no lathe, no mill, so if we had been in the same problem (which we weren't, but anyway), we would have had to get the sprockets custom-made by some machine shop.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

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Four wheel drive is simple. Its called sprockets on the other two wheels, and one chain with a tensioner.
But, if the chain breaks, you can't drive on that side. I've seen enough chains break during matches to want the extra redundancy.
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

My team ran into this. We opted to run with the two wheel drive, but to drop the 21 toothed sprockets for 15's (we wanted to slow down a bit, rookie driver and all). I was in charge of ordering the new sprockets, and just as I was on my way out shop one night, I asked a student to measure the shaft for me so I could order them that night. He quickly grabbed a pair of calipers, and I guess 16mm was close enough to 5/8ths that he figured he had made a mistake and assumed it was 5/8ths (all our other drive train shaft is). I probably would have done the same.

So I ordered sprockets from McMaster with a finished bore for 5/8ths. Needles to say, I was confused when the sprockets just wouldn't go on!

After a while, we figured it out. 5/8ths of an inch does not equal 16mm's it seems. The solution was to ream out the bore and 'press' the sprocket on with a hammer. It was tighter then I would have liked, and I hope we never have to take that thing off, but it works. I probably spent more time trying to figure out why things didn't fit then I did fixing anything.

Moral of the story- Sometimes, that metric system will show up in the most unlikely of places. Read your manuals!

Although, now that I think of it, I probably still would have gotten the same sprockets. I'd rather have to take a few passes with a reamer then drill/bore out a unfinished sprocket. But I'm lazy.

My only critique of the kit trannys is that ours seem to run out lubrication real fast. That may have something to do with how we (mis)assembled them, but I notice that they need periodic lube jobs. If thats my only beef with them, I'm happy enough to go back to dealing with all my real problems on the bot, like where I'm going to find room for ballast.

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I did the same thing and assumed a 5/8" bore for the sprockets. So we were rather surprised when our ordered sprockets would not fit. Therefore, I second Andy A's suggestion to READ THE MANUAL. It was unexpected, but easily designed around, and if we were delayed in getting our bot mobile, it was no one's fault but our own (mine). We just took the ordered sprockets back and quickly ordered 2 more 21 tooth kit sprockets.

That being said, the new kitbot transmissions are AWESOME!!! They are easy to assemble, can be used for a variety of configuations and purposes, and are quality-made. If you used the transmissions from years past, you know that there really is no comparison. Any team will be hard pressed to come up with a superior single speed transmission.

All I can say is thank you Paul Copioli. I don't know you, but I sure like your work!
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Re: Drive Assembly Sprockets are Custom Bored

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Moral of the story- Sometimes, that metric system will show up in the most unlikely of places.
I will second that!

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That being said, the new kitbot transmissions are AWESOME!!! They are easy to assemble, can be used for a variety of configuations and purposes, and are quality-made.
I sure hope the 2006 game includes the same transmissions (hint) and that we can re-use the 2005 transmissions (hint, hint, hint) in 2006. Wouldn't it be cool to have 250 omni-drive teams??
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My experience in design and building is as a mentor for the past four years (including 05) on a team with no engineering support, limited funds, few tools but lots of students with grit and determination to get things done. We have gone from homemade to ready made and I can attest that this year's kit of gears and motors was the best ever. Last year we tried a self-designed system using similar motors, sprockets from the local supplier and chain. We crashed and burned (literally) so many times that we spent the entire first day of the competition last year running between teams trading parts, information and expertise with a robot that we never ran after the first go-round on day 1. This year we had the robot built and running by the end of week 1! For my money this helped us concentrate on making things right instead of trial and error. I'd like to personally thank the person or people responsible for the entire kit and also for their tireless efforts in making the process work for ALL teams, not just those with unlimited tech assistance, tools and funds. FIRST should be about inspiring students to reach beyond what they thought possible. This concept kit did just that. Keep up the good work and make next year's kit just as user-friendly for ALL teams!
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