Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Alignin the motor plate

The motor plate is now on its place, but still unaligned. It will be aligned with the gearbox shaft with a simple method that one of my workmates suggested. An iron nail is attached to the gearbox shaft using strong magnets. The gearbox shaft is then rotated by rotating one of the front wheels with a gear selected from the gearbox. The distance between the motor shaft hole wall and the iron nail is then adjusted to be equal in every rotary position of the gearbox shaft. This measuring method should make the alignment accurate enough. Once the gearbox shaft is centered with the motor shaft hole, the motor plate will be secured in its place by welding. After this, the motor itself can be mounted with the flywheel assembly.

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