Our team recently installed 3d printed swerve covers for our mk4i swerves. We printed covers out of duramic pla+ on bambulab a1s. Some had 2 walls and no supports, some were printed with 4 walls and supports.
When installing one of the covers, we noticed the warping was really bad and was making it impossible to install the motors to the cover. We replaced this one. My mechanical peers also noted that the motors were hard to install once the cover was placed on for all 4 swerves (they never installed them without motors, so we don’t know if that’s normal, I would assume maybe not).
- while the rest of the covers turned out fine, I’m concerned that small warping not perceivable to the eyes might be making the motors engage slightly off-center which might result in wearing of the gears at an abnormally faster rate.
- The gearbox that had initial troubles still sounds bad, as in lots of friction. I would like someone’s opinion on this (video below)
- Im curious to see if anyone else has encountered similar problems, and any advice on it.
- and in general, gears being pushed close together like that, is that healthy?
video of what the 4th swerve sounds like. This swerve is greased. It doesn’t sound as free as the other 3 modules.
the other 3 modules do not sound ass free as a module that has no motors installed, so I’m wondering if there is some warping that may be damaging to the motors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNwHX_AHoY
the picture of the previously replaced warped cover:
