The motor arrived today so been busy mounting those into the robot and getting the wiring into the robot. If I was doing this again, I'll make the body slightly longer than 100mm, the wiring loom looks very... compressed With the motor here, I got the wiring into the robot and a deck plate secured over the rails to make a void for the removable link and fuses. The batteries will sit on top of that.

To show how I got the motor mounted into the robot, I had already drilled a 10mm hole for the shaft but needed to work out where to drill the holes for the motor mount. So I got some flange screws, mounted them in as far as I can so they are lower than the output shaft, got some blu tack on the panel over the hole and pushed the motor as square as I could into the hole.

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This leaves an impression in the blu tack when the motor is carefully removed. I then got a small crosshead screwdriver and smacked that through the centre of the blu tack

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Once done, I pulled the blu tack away and there are 4 marks on the panel, ready to drill (I used a 5mm drill bit here).

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And here is a finished article. The only thing I need to do is add some shakeproof washers and something for the motor to sit on at the rear but the motors are now attached.

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I've then wired up the robot and now it is running, if not moving. The wheels are en-route so it might be running by the end of the week. Next thing is to mount the hubs onto the wheels, wheels onto the motors and build the front wedge. If I have time before EXR Guildford. work out what to put at the rear. Getting there though.

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