RE: AFV of the Month for February 2004

["SteveT44" <SteveT44-at-comcast.net>]

Ray,

Attached is a rough sketch of how my motor mounts are configured.  It's not
to scale.  The motor swivels to tension the belt.  Wedges are used to keep
it tensioned.  I only adjust belt length when I'm playing with different
pulley sizes.  That "black stuff" your referring to is part of the original
motor mount that came with my EV's.  I recycled it to clamp the motors in
place in my design.

I haven't had any problems with belt slippage except one time when one of
the wedges worked itself loose.

Frank has come up with a really simple way to mount the EV's, though it
requires a little welding.  See if you can get him to send you a pic.

Steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com
> [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com]On Behalf Of ray.schwartz-at-juno.com
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 7:28 PM
> To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
> Subject: Re: AFV of the Month for February 2004
>
>
> steve ,
> are you having any problem with direct drive from the ev warriors to the
> drive shaft with v belts ?
> you have anything for stretch adjustment or just shorten the belt..
> what is that that is holding the ev warrior into the wooden frame.. the
> black stuff....
> i cut my motor mounts out of wood like that ,im planning on trying big
> hose clamps...
>
> i built the pittelli transmition but i mounted the shafts about .25" to
> low so im fighting getting the chains on .... i will have to rebuild this
> sooner or later..
>
> ray "im running out of room in that hull"schwartz
>   Louisiana Tigers....
> confederate tank batt...
>
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