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Why is the kitbot chassis bowing in horribly
Does anyone know the reasons why the top panel holding the two gearboxes together would warp horribly? Even before everything was mounted the top part was starting to buckel inwards.
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Re: Why is the kitchasis bowing in horribly
Nothing has happened to our robot yet...
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Re: Why is the kitchasis bowing in horribly
large pieces of metal shouldn't just buckle. Thats terrifying actually. Did you leave it on a heater? Did you douse in some odd chemical? Did you look at it really funny?
By side panel what do you mean, because if its one of those C sections thats really really really out of the ordinary. My only explanation for that buckling is a sledge hammer or an unlikely quantum outcome... More information would be useful is all i'm saying. |
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Re: Why is the kitchasis bowing in horribly
Please post some pictures and more details.
As you might imagine, I'm interested in analyzing EVERY failure. If there is a problem, we should know about it -- to effectively provide tech support to teams. Also, we'd like to try to make improvements for 2006 (assuming a similar system is provided). Thanks, John |
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Re: Why is the kitchasis bowing in horribly
I don't know how much yours is bowing but our metal piece that fit over the transmissions is bowed down, because the transmissions are tipping in. This may not be a kit problem as we have modified the kit and will make supports so that this is not an issue.
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Were all the parts the same relative temperature when you tightened the hardware?
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Re: Why is the kitchasis bowing in horribly
This sounds minor compared to everyone elses problems, but when bolted together in one of the suggested configurations, two rails were noticeabley not parallel (measured at ~.5" over the entire length). I did not assemble it, but I heard that the people doing it had significant trouble getting the last pieces bolted in because of the bowing.
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Re: Why is the kitchasis bowing in horribly
Ya, something like that happened to ours. We built a prototype and whenever we ran it, besides it making the noise, we also found loose nuts and bolts, and so we tightened everything and then afterwards, the noise stopped. The top panel on the gearboxes might be warped because of the way you mounted it onto the two gearboxes. Probably just tightening everything might fix it.
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After reading the previous posts we rechecked the bolts, and some of them were loose so that helped. Also additional pieces added to the frame under the motors and elsewhere stiffened things up.
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Re: Why is the kitbot chassis bowing in horribly
No problems with our chassis thus far, we put it together without a problem. Just yesterday we put in the gear box cover and today got the 4WD working with the electronics.
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Re: Why is the kitbot chassis bowing in horribly
there are no problem with our chassis too, but there are some rought sound when we run the motor (w/gearbox).
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Last edited by dez250 : 01-22-2005 at 10:32 PM. |
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