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looking good Sam, pretty heavy duty chain tensioners! lol

You say idler gears... you mean one gear on the output of the gearbox running against a second to reverse the direction of the output? Nice work so far though mate. Get a picture of them in the machine :)

Cheers dude, its getting there slowly..

Yep thats exactly it. I've ordered the bearings and gears and drawn up a design. But it involves alot of effort and adds weight and i'm starting to feel that i can't be bother to make it now.... as looking more carefully at the motor again, it might be easier to butcher it to fetch the timing back after all.... even if it means remaking the back of the motor.

shouldn't be too long till their ready to install....hopefully

Decided to go on with the idler gearbox design and keep the motors standard.

Got on the CAD to design this one, then wrote 3 pages of G-code for the machine. Spent way too many hours on this...... but it does look quite cool and shaved most of the grams off possible.

Theres just one more plate/cover which needs machining to go on top with the other bearing supports.

wow! :o

Lol cheers Harry.

Some more progress over the last few days....

Finished the outer bearing support for the idler gearbox. Machined ti shaft, fitted spockets and keywayed both gears on.

As it turned out the 'cover plate' took as long to make as the housing itself but turned out quite well.

Assembly in the chassis at last..... with the chains fitted and gearboxes bolted down.

This shows the aluminium inner wheel mounts too. Also the now pocketed triangular part of the baseplate.

how is it posible for it to look sooo good?

Time, patience and a CNC mill

Looking epic mate

AWESOME :shock: