pic: 973 teaser #2

[Scott Morgan]

Originally Posted by Team2339

I hope this is a viable manipulator arm, because it is what we are building as well. Does anyone see any issues with the van motor driving the arm?

Still don't get the wheel part.

In 2005 we used a vad door motor and a winch to drive our arm and were able to lift 36 lbs with it no problem. The only issue was that it was rather slow after the reduction. You could use a smaller reduction to get more speed out of it.