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Collo



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Right-Angle Gear Box

Im toying around with ideas for future, more complicated robots. I just wondering, probably Nick can help, how the Whyachi right angled Gearboxes work. More specifically what gears are used and how they all line up.
This would be for a low spinner where the motor lays on the chassis too keep things as low as possible aswell as being capable of high rotations. I know you can just buy their gearboxes with MagMotors and everything, but just curious as to how its all set up.

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Post Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:52 pm 
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Right-angled gearboxes usually have what's known as bevel gears:



Most of the commercial units are much too heavy for small robots, which is why the Whyachi aluminium one is so handy. Spockie-Tech has adapted the gearbox out of various angle grinders for his bot I.G., but they are not really able to take sustained punishment from a spinner blade. Making your own from scratch is difficult; you would need a lathe and probably a mill to do a good job.

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Thanks Nick. Do you have any pictures of the Whyachi gearbox your using?
And is there much weight and size difference between that and a angle grinders one?

Also, would a worm gear onto horizontally mounted gear work or would there be too much stress for most worm gears?
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the whyachi ones have solid ass bevel gears with large bearings and all in a solid block of ali so id say they would way a bit more.
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Correct, the Whyachi gearbox weighs around 1.9 Kg, but you absolutely get what you pay for. It has far larger gears that still look like new after 3 years, large bearings that have only had one problem in the same time and a 1" lightweight Ti shaft that most people (except me!) never bend. An angle grinder gearbox has a .5 to possibly 3/4" steel shaft (only in the latgest models) and much smaller gears.

The real difference is the mounting and the coupling to a motor; the whyachi is purpose made for that. Unless you get a huge angle grinder for free, the Whyachi is worth it.

Just for a balanced discussion, the other way to do this is a flat (pancake) style motor and belt drive to a shaft mounted in bearing blocks - a classic example is Bender.

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Some more right angle questions;
1. Has anyone seen or tried Helical Gears? Anyone think thesse gears could handle a few thousand rpm?

2. Gary, with Badger, how is the spinning shaft connected to it's base? All i could think of was bearings between the shaft and chassis, but I'm not sure whether bearings would be able to handle the pull.

And yeah, im asking all this because i want to make a Shell Spinner after I become a bit more competant at building. In an attempt at making one that is extremely low, 5cm?, and won't 'Do a Mauler'.

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Helical gears would work, just size them right and take into account the need for thrust bearings. for a given load, crossed helical gears will need to be heavier duty than the equivalent spur gears.

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Helical gears would work, just size them right and take into account the need for thrust bearings. for a given load, crossed helical gears will need to be heavier duty than the equivalent bevel gears.

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Double row ball bearing.
Badgers shell is designed to flex so the bearing doesn’t take too big a hit.

The shell hits on 4 rubber tyred wheels when it flexes and they distribute and absorb the load.

I will try and get Rob to do a drawing, no idea where he is so that might take a while.
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the whyachi gearbox has helical bevel gears right?
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