progress has been slow so i started cadding up some drive gear boxes other night so that now i no how to i can make em myself at work and spoke to managers about getting some axles made up with keyways on to fit my wheels as cant turn myself. Pics to follow soon hopefully be nice to have it driving for the next expo in nov
got 1 gear box/drive pod done, once i've got my axle made and gears done ill make the other sides once i know the one i've made is all good
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almost finished gear box just gotta shorten the motor shaft a tad and weld the gear on then i've gotta make the other one!
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Is it just going to be a 1 stage gearbox? What's the ratio?
Yeah and its like 4-1 ish, same as what turbulence has got with the same kinda size wheels
Can't believe this has been unfinished for so long! getting it done along with my new feather weight before the champs rolls round again and i have to work on TS3
not much to show atm, been getting the magnets secured in the motors properly thou by making a pair or 10mm ali disks that bold to the casing and through the center of the magnets to eachother.
pics below...
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gonna buy a pair of 6s 5000mah lipos for it to instead of having hawkers as that way i can fit a buffer tank in- will make a lipo case for them too like i did for my feather
havn't got many pictures yet, got top armour panels finished and painted but i've a few more bits to do to the rest of the chassis yet so not going to paint the rest atm
been spending most my spare time at work sorting the boschs out which have been a rite nightmare! there is a light at the end of the tunnel thou i hope! not much more work to do on them now-few pics below
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made steel disks then had edd tig weld them together for me to enable the gears to be grub screwed to the motor armature.
more to come soon
This looks really nice. It's nice seeing you put the time into it
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about time this got finished!
popped round edds today to get things done and with alot of help from him its mechanically not far off.
hopefully gonna get it wired up partly later this week with alan - as its at his workshop atm.
will do a vid soon as theres something to show
Glad to see it nearly there calum! Funny how all the HW's I have ever owned have either come from you, you have had off me or even heavily worked on haha
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