pic: Top Gun With Wheels

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by RogerR

i noticed that in addition to being able to slide the front/back wheels horizontally, you can also slide the middle wheels up and down. did you do this so that you could tension the chain? and if so, why not slide the gear boxes?

It's more so we can tinker with the center wheel height than for chain tensioning. It's our first 6WD bot so the chassis guys aren't sure how low the centers are going to want to go. (I said, "just set them at a 1/4-inch and let's call it good." They said, "what if we can get away with an 1/8th?" I said, "We can't go wrong if we just copy Titan Robotics." They said, "well, this way we can fine tune it." I said, "JUST MAKE IT DRIVE!!3!" They said, "here, Rick, take your meds.")