Re: Progress [TANKS]

["Aahz." <ErickKilmer-at-comcast.net>]

René Sluimer wrote:
> Very smooth, anything you want to attach to the motor will have to be 
> shrink fitted to the shaft.
>
> As for how the gears come off depends on their after-fit quality, one 
> came off split clean down the middle
> while the other cracked into a 1/3 and a 2/3 piece with the bigger one 
> staying on the shaft, but that came off quite easy with a bit of 
> leverage and you have to increase the force on the nutsplitter's 
> chisel very, very slowly and even then you might dent the shaft with 
> it, as it did with one of them.
>
> As for why it had to come of is that we use metric gears in 
> Continental Europe and my colleague thus only has the tools to cut 
> metric gears of Module 1, so not much use for a gear with english pitch.

    I can understand that, my entire shop is metric. It made scaling 
down a Soviet tank a heck of a lot easier.

    Thanks for the info, it makes my plans for the motor a lot easier.

Aahz.