drill motor

NabilD314 · January 21, 2003, 7:48pm

Has any team’s new drill motors come broken? Team 314’s drill motors came with the plastic brush holder’s broken.

Adam_Y · January 21, 2003, 8:23pm

Yeah I know those brush leads are %%%%. They break very easily when any force is applied to them. The odd fact is that the motors still work broken.

ejthe4th · January 25, 2003, 9:43am

yeah, we’ve had the same type of problem with our drill motors. last night when we were driving one of the brushes came off and destroyed all the fan blades and broke the plastic piece that holds it in :mad:

Walter_Jr · January 25, 2003, 9:48am

we have had no problems with ours yet and he have ran our tracks many times!!!

This is our configuration for our drive-train

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=3459&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=3&trows=4&quiet=verbose

NabilD314 · January 25, 2003, 10:33am

The fan blades broke on ours too when the wires came off.

Adam_Y · January 25, 2003, 11:42am

we have had no problems with ours yet and he have ran our tracks many times!!!

now show me a picture of the wire leads. Hmm shock mounting the motors is probably a must.

LaurenH · January 25, 2003, 12:14pm

One of our drill motors are broken too. What are you guys doing about?

Gadget470 · January 25, 2003, 12:38pm

The back clip snapped apart when a very minimal force was applied by one of the mentors reattaching a connector.

BillyGoats · January 25, 2003, 1:53pm

Yes, walter_jr i agree. No problems here. Hrmm your drive train looks very similar to our =p.

Walter_Jr · January 25, 2003, 1:57pm

I think they are just not being careful with the motors… we dropped one and it still worked… thnk god…

BillyGoats · January 25, 2003, 2:03pm

yes yes i remeber that! omg i thought a new hole was going to be punched in to a wall that was funny tho =)

Gadget470 · January 25, 2003, 2:25pm

*Originally posted by Walter_Jr *
**I think they are just not being careful with the motors… we dropped one and it still worked… thnk god… **

Ours broke when a mentor was pushing a connector on. The motor still works, but the tab on the back is b0rk3d

Walter_Jr · January 25, 2003, 2:28pm

We left the wires that came with it on it… I don’t know why you would want to change the wires anyways

Adam_Y · January 25, 2003, 8:01pm

We left the wires that came with it on it… I don’t know why you would want to change the wires anyways

Your supposed to because the wires aren’t the proper gauge.

K.Shaw · January 25, 2003, 8:49pm

well not to name any names but a person on our team broke the transmission off r drill motor within the first 15sec lol but not to worry it was fixed in minutes

team222badbrad · January 25, 2003, 9:17pm

Oops we broke our first drill motor today… Some top secret part of our robot hit the one brush, pushed it in, and broke the brush holder and all the fan blades… GOOD THING THEY ONLY COST 18 bucks

We also over-tightend the plastic motor mounts and they broke in our first week.

Ricardo · January 25, 2003, 9:31pm

I think that the people on the 314 build crew must have really tried hard to break them because ours havent broke yet. Nabil, Matt, Ghram stop whining.<(x)>

GrahamS314 · January 25, 2003, 11:39pm

Note: The above post is from a disgruntled animator on the Megatron Oracles team 314. He has chosen to post rediculous replies because he realizes that he should’ve stayed on the build crew. Disregard his post.