pic: Team 123 Pix of 2003 Robot for "King of the hill"

[Mark Garver]

I guess it was just the way you initially come across when I read this thread. It may have not been your comments along, however I thought the comments were going in a very negative direction for this team, which they weren't able to defend. Just my feelings.

It seems as though many people like the wing idea. I know I did as well as many other T3 members and as a result T3 was born.

I agree with you that the output shalf or motor housing can not take side load. I usually assume that a pivot point would be at where the motor face plate bolts on to the robot. You would have a lever arm for the motor housing as well as the output shaft. By controlling the deflection of the motor housing, meaning very little movement, the output shaft can handle a much larger load as a result of this bracing. This just using some common enigneering, I believe the college course that I learned most of this in was Mechanics of Materials.

I hope that they can either come up with a housing for the globe motor to decrease deflection or have multiple spares on hand. In either case I have talked to a few of our metal makers and they are willing to help, with a design and build if needed. Also I agree with you that FIRST might not have spares on hand, hopefully they can count on other teams to provide this as well. Swing by our pits, I think we might have an extra case or two of globe motors. (Not using them this year).

Hope this clears things up, and please don't feel as though I was attacking you, I was only attacking the way in which you posted your comments.