Re: RE: AFV of the Month for February 2004

[adt22-at-drexel.edu]

Fellow EV Users,
  I have two EV's on the way and so far the only spec I know for the shaft is 8mm 
diameter.  Is a 5/16" bore with a set screw the right match for this shaft?  
  From the pictures the shaft looks like it was made for something with slots.   Is 
there anywhere to get  a slotted pulley/sprocket?  
  The shaft wouldn't happen to also be keyed, would it?
  Thanks,
  Amir  

----- Original Message -----
From: SteveT44 <SteveT44-at-comcast.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:20 am
Subject: RE: AFV of the Month for February 2004

> 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 
> differentpulley 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
> > [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...
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________
> > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
> > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
> > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
> >
>