pic: EWCP Jumps Into the Swerve

[Aren_Hill]

and even after saying that i still vote to not do one during the season

No offense RC, but I doubt you will with that design. Unless you made some serious changes to the internals from when I had the design, it won't work. There'll be too much torsional flex between the sideplates of the module, which will either shear the screws holding it on or skip the bevel gears, depending on which way you're driving. We found a workaround to it during the offseason... It involved a lot of plumber's tape, duct tape, and some janky hacksawed metal bits.

I wish you luck.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

No offense RC, but I doubt you will with that design. Unless you made some serious changes to the internals from when I had the design, it won't work. There'll be too much torsional flex between the sideplates of the module, which will either shear the screws holding it on or skip the bevel gears, depending on which way you're driving. We found a workaround to it during the offseason... It involved a lot of plumber's tape, duct tape, and some janky hacksawed metal bits.

I wish you luck.

This post brings up a question I've been wondering.

When you guys decided on a crab to prototype, why did you decide to do this one versus other designs out there. Just curious.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

No offense RC, but I doubt you will with that design. Unless you made some serious changes to the internals from when I had the design, it won't work. There'll be too much torsional flex between the sideplates of the module, which will either shear the screws holding it on or skip the bevel gears, depending on which way you're driving. We found a workaround to it during the offseason... It involved a lot of plumber's tape, duct tape, and some janky hacksawed metal bits.

I wish you luck.

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

This post brings up a question I've been wondering.

When you guys decided on a crab to prototype, why did you decide to do this one versus other designs out there. Just curious.

Just to answer both questions, these aren't our only plates and modules made. We have 3 different types made, I'll upload a pic soon. To be honest, I have no experience with crab/serve. I have different designs and personally, I have no clue what works and what doesn't. I'm just trying different stuff out. So during build, we woudln't be limited to one design. We finally worked it out between our metal supplier, Valley Iron (which I would like to thanks, donated over 5k of metal since last october), to give us all their scrap and some new stuff if needed.

We currently have a 148 type (looking) setup, a team 221 looking one, and the setup seen above. I'll post another pic once I get the modules back.