Friday, March 7, 2014

Chassis Rail Machining - Andrew Baden

Today I worked with Dr. Bronakowski on machining the side chassis rails using the CNC machine to allow the motor mounts to be adjustable.  We would like these motor mounts to be adjustable so that we can minimize the amount of slack in the chains used for the drive system.

Slot in chassis rail for motor mounts
Here are pictures of the motor mount attached to one of the chassis rails:

Top view

Front view
The motor mount is not fully attached in these pictures because I just wanted to do a test fit with the motor mounts to see if they fit correctly with the fasteners that we are using.  Later I will need to machine a similar but larger slot for the motor's shaft to go through.

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