In a attempt to rectify the complications and lost time on our Sunday build, I have had a four
hour session today fitting the bearings to support the wheels of our robot.
It turns out that probably this was the better way to do things around-for some reason
the two bars down the middle of the robot would not fit back into thier original
position and to do so would have meant having very badly aligned wheels, I'm not certain
why this was-it could be any or all of mutiple reasons.
So the two bars now run from thier original position at the back but end up at a point at
the front, this will be no detrement to the robot and they wont be seen inside the chassis
anyroad and I consider it more important that the wheels look straight.
At some point the wheels will need to come off again to fit the drive train and weld
the wheel to the spindle,I'm hoping there won't be any issues when it comes to removing
them because even fitting the bolts in the bearings was very fiddly.
Now that the wheels are on it certainly makes it easier to move around and I can imagine
powerfull motors will have no trouble driving it along I also was able to test the maximum
drive inclination,which turns out to be 45 degrees.
Heres some pics I took-note the spirit level used to make sure the bodywork was level
when the wheels were on the ground.
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