Today I had a little miss hap with the caster...
I was doing some 4-6ft jumps on grass with the caster and it nose dived in the the ground, and then went into a forward roll for about 10 feet.
Which resulted in this:
Which later led to this:
What happened was, the battery shifted right into the spur gear on impact. The reason being is that I had to cut the battery tray to hold my lipo. Plus it didnt help that the trays are so freakin close to the spur!!!
Small wooden block, sized and placed so it acts as a wall to stop the battery moving to the spur again. Solid oak wood, held down by a single screw from the bottom of the chassis.
Anyway, Fixed that, now onto the next thing.
A rather perculiar miss hap this time, the center -> rear dog bone fell out. Went to place it back in, and it apears to be 10mm too short. so I put a peice of fuel tubing around 5mm in each of the outdrives to centre the dog bone. Used for another pack after this and seems to be holding up well. Perhaps I lost spacers from inside or something but this is mighty strange.
Next occurance, front left CVD drive pin comes loose! What ever next.
Luckily it didn't fall out completely otherwise I would have been completely screwed but it was lying on the ground next to the stalled caster :/
Took both the front axles apart, re-applied thread lock and away I went.
The rear don't have the CVD cups, they just use out-drives and dog bones.
In an attempt to cool this super hot motor...
Surprisingly stable, and doesn't move about but... and this is a big but. It doesn't help at all, in-fact it's probably worse than using the tiny heat sink and amazingly slow fan. If the fan was faster on the heat-sinked one, perhaps it would help a little.
Top shot of the chassis:
View of the underside:
Thanks, and hope your finding this useful
