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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I used those white wheels in Inspector General. They allowed me to be invertible by poking out the top of the shell, *But, they put some serious loads on drill motors and reduce their reliability significantly.
They are *heavy (heaps of rubber tread) that I had to drill big radial holes into to lighten (which improved their traction on crud strewn floors as well) and and the higher rotational inertia smashes drill gearboxes to bits on reversals without some improved boxes *and rotational-shock-absorbtion on the motor/gearbox mounts.
They also need a bracket to move the drive torque away from the center to the rim or you will just tear the centers out. Gary made me a wheel adapter with an arm that screws to the outer edge of the hub.
They give you a nice turn of speed being large diameter, but stress the motors a lot. I regularly melted the internal cooling fans on my 18v high quality johnson motors. dont even think about hung-chang motors, they will melt, and/or break brushes in no time.
Additional, if you are up for serious combat, you should support the outside edge of the axle shaft with a flexible bearing as well to help take the heavy twist loading off the little bearing in the drill gearbox.
Of course all of this is combat-experience learned over 3 or 4 versions of Inspector General. if youre just building a platform to experiment with, slap them on and go for it.. but you have to *work to make them survive in a fight. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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