Wednesday, December 7, 2016

12/7/2016

For this week, most of my time was spent cading new mounts for both the motor and the brake. the brake is now facing between the two bogie, where the most mounting space is available. The motor mount takes advantage of the pre existing bolt between the two bogies which are already used for the wheel bearings. The mount itself bolts together using 1/4-20 bolts and I am currently working to see the tear out failure for these bolts. Also, I 3d printed these mounts so they can be fixed to the pre-existing model that Michael had cut out.


I should also mention that the mount for the brake with going to be made out of 1inch tubing, using the same material as the bogie cross-members