Great work! What are your torsion bars made of?
Greg
On Feb 23, 1:45 am, George Mastoras <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some progress at last.
> Still a bit to do, some welding, drilling, tapping about a days worth before
> can attach a battery to test.
> Should say this was a PITA and would not do it again, while putting this
> thing together was always thinking what if this chain broke etc so had to
> build in servicing and repair considerations.
>
> The gear ratio is 12:1 and the motors are about 320 watts at 12 volts but
> will run it at 24volts also.
> When moving this vehicle uses 56 ball bearings and 12 bushes for the arms so
> it should be efficient.
>
> Will be able to adjust tension on all the chains and be able to disassemble
> the transmission hopefully fairly easy.
>
> When welding is finished will pull apart and paint, set the bearings and
> take some photos when its in pieces.
>
> Even though its been a bit of a pain am looking forward to seeing this move,
> hopefully should be driving within 2 weeks or earlier, apart from
> transmission only have 4 road wheels left to do.
>
> George Mastoras
>
> 3stage_1.jpg
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> 3stage_2.jpg
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> 3stage_3.jpg
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> 3stage_4.jpg
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> 3stage_5.jpg
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