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Cyber Blue 234's Kicker Recoil Gearbox

Collin Fultz

By: Collin Fultz
New: 20-02-2010 21:58
Updated: 20-02-2010 21:58
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Cyber Blue 234's Kicker Recoil Gearbox

This is the gearbox designed to tension our kicking mechanism. The CAD work was done with the help of students Miranda (CD - mgoelz) and Jacob (CD - jdbohanon234). It was an interesting experience going from CAD to manufacturing with very little prototyping before. Needless to say, when it worked, we were very relieved.

Special thanks to Colors, Inc. for all of their help annodizing all of our parts again this year.

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20-02-2010 23:52

Jamie Kalb


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Why the bevel gears? Are they just to make the motor package nicely?

Overall, it looks great!



21-02-2010 00:07

JDBohanon234


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Why the bevel gears? Are they just to make the motor package nicely?

Overall, it looks great!
The bevel gears are simply for the ease of mounting the CIM and to prevent any hazardous interference with the kicker itself. Plus, without them, the motor would be hanging off of the gearbox. Earlier today when we were testing it with different sizes of wire, some of the more thin ones actually snapped. We designed it to not be vulnerable to such perilous situations.



21-02-2010 01:07

Jamie Kalb


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The bevel gears are simply for the ease of mounting the CIM and to prevent any hazardous interference with the kicker itself.
Makes sense. Great design, and great job on the CAD!



21-02-2010 10:19

MGoelz


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Makes sense. Great design, and great job on the CAD!
Thank you! We were really excited to be able to design the gearbox. I had never had such an opportunity before.



21-02-2010 13:22

Jamie Kalb


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Thank you! We were really excited to be able to design the gearbox. I had never had such an opportunity before.
It's great to see your designs come to life, isn't it? The first time's particularly exciting. I remember my first time, in the 2008 offseason. I designed a fancy two-axis bearing block in Solidworks, made a drawing, then watched our machinist mill it out of a block of aluminum. That convinced me that I wanted to continue with design, CAD in particular.



21-02-2010 14:13

MGoelz


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It's great to see your designs come to life, isn't it? The first time's particularly exciting. I remember my first time, in the 2008 offseason. I designed a fancy two-axis bearing block in Solidworks, made a drawing, then watched our machinist mill it out of a block of aluminum. That convinced me that I wanted to continue with design, CAD in particular.
Well, I've designed other things before, but what made this so special is that we designed the gearbox from scratch. We used calculations to determine what we would need and determined the best way to put all those things together. The application of things I had learned in school is what was particularly fascinating. It's just really awesome to see a real-world application for all the number crunching that is done in math and science classrooms.



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