|
|
|
 p.s. note that 5-1/2 hours in the car with your daughter on the way to IRI is NOT the same as 10 hours in the van with seven members of Team 116 on the way to IRI. One is a wonderful familial experience, the other is an opportunity to go insane. - dlavery [more] |
 |
|
|||||||
|
||||||||
We used in total 2 rolls of electrical tape to re-align the chain beacuse it was off by an incredibly amount. We could not take out the wheel's axel out beacuse we forced in the axle into the shaft colar when we were building the robot, therefore, making it impossible. A bit of friction... no big deal =) Amazing eh?
Discussion
view entire thread
02-04-2006 01:04
Gabe
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
What is that big black thing?!? It seems to be a large bunch of electrical tape. Help me out here, my mechanical mind can't figure it out!
02-04-2006 01:09
Dave_Lu
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
Yeah, it is a larage bunch of electrical tape wrapped in with small pecies of thin steal. We were trying to tension the chain as well as to push the chain inwards towards the gearbox. Same with the bottom.
02-04-2006 04:37
Rombus
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
Took me a while to figure out whats going on here. You do realize that is an illegal use of electrical tape right? Must grind though that tape pretty quick!
02-04-2006 08:43
scott
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
Yeah, using tape for anything other than non-functional decoration is illegal, and it doesn't look like you could just simply make a bracket to set the gearbox over. So, taking off the wheel and re-aligning that would be your bes bet ( Nothing is impossible with a hack-saw and large hammer 
)
02-04-2006 10:48
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
Might I suggest a block of Delrin for a more legal method of tensioning your chain? Just swap that tape monster for a delrin cylinder of apprpriate size (always be on the side of too tight), and lock it into place.
(by the way, I do love the idea... but it'll get eaten through and the inspectors will just love it...)
02-04-2006 11:45
lukevanoort
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
How about the old engine swappers trick, making it fit, via stacks of washers. Put them on the bottom of the tranny and viola! tensioning. (Although it depends on how much slack you have if this works)
02-04-2006 17:38
Joe Ross
Re: pic: Chain Aligning #1564
|
Originally Posted by scott
Yeah, using tape for anything other than non-functional decoration is illegal, and it doesn't look like you could just simply make a bracket to set the gearbox over. So, taking off the wheel and re-aligning that would be your bes bet ( Nothing is impossible with a hack-saw and large hammer
) |
view entire thread
Tags
loading ...