pic: Grasshopper Drive

[wasayanwer97]

Looks nice, although I'm not convinced of the practicality.
(Not to discredit the design. Practicality is subject to resources anyways.)

I spent a lot of time this year practicing plate drives myself, and nothing like his ever occurred to me.

A few questions/concerns though:

First, (though pardon me if I missed something, I'm only learning too) I can't really see the advantage of this over a normal, drop center, 6 wheel. It seems like there may be a lot of complexity and use of resources that might not provide an equal return in performance. What is achieved by going from 6 to 4?

Second, you might to want to lighten those plates, as there's a lot of unneeded material in that plane. Structure optimally comes from profile, not thickness. And in this case, as previously mentioned, it's going to be the standoffs that provide most of your support.

Also, already mentioned before too, but having separate plates that you bolt/rivet on for your piston support would save a lot of metal.

Looks cool altogether though. I'd love to see where this goes.