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A project log for "Tenacity": Yet-Another-Sawppy-Project

Inspired by Roger and others, I'm making a SAWPPY-Alike rover, adding my own tweaks and mods.

steveSteve 09/26/2019 at 20:520 Comments

This is a test of one of the motors after I'd printed out the housing, shafts, etc. and screwed everything down. Mostly I was just going through the full sub-assembly here, checking out how it all moved once assembled. The bracket/housing here is printed in a red PLA because I wanted to save the nicer, slightly more spendy PETG for the actual model vs. using it on a test-stand that would probably get tossed or might break or need another round of CAD & printing if things didn't fit exactly right.


I generally keep a couple spools of bargain-basement PLA on hand for just this sort of thing. I get the super-cheap $9.99 whatever-Amazon-throws-at-me or what Matterhackers has on clearance and then print all my test-fit parts with that, saving the more expensive stuff for the final print when I'm sure all the fit-and-finish has been worked out.

Google Drive is being annoying about inlining videos that I've uploaded there. The inFrame method I've used before to include a link to a video I've uploaded to drive doesn't seem to work anymore. So you'll just have to check it out here:

On-bench motor test



(If somebody has figured out the current way to inline display videos from Google Drive or something this isn't YouTube/Vimeo, please comment below.
Thanks!

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