pic: 4143 offseason motor in wheel swerve

[RyanShoff]

Originally Posted by asid61

Okay, I'm looking at the cad.
Main thing I'm wondering about is the internal gear/ wheel assembly you have going on. How are you planning on making that? Do you have the correct broach for it?.

You are correct the wheel is an assembly in the cad. This is really one piece. We have parameterized Creo involute gear files. It was being lazy that the wheel was modeled separately and 'glued' to the gear. It is designed to be made as one piece out of 4" OD .5" wall 6061 pipe.

There is a machining process called gear shaping. It is not too common any more but is still about the only way to form a gear up against a shoulder. This article describes the history of process. Here is the first random video I found.