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Re: High Strength Powered Steerable pivot wheel
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 21 May 2001 15:18:35 GMT
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I was unfamiliar with that turntable.  I will have to see if I can find
some.  Anybody know of an esay to find kit that include them?

I only need two:  Front and rear.

The steering is handle mainly by the front and rear with the side wheels
driven like a tank.

In lugnet.robotics, Simon Bennett writes:

> Do you need to steer each wheel independently?  The only really strong
> turntable element you can also pass a drive through is the Technic Turntable
> (2855/2856 on Partsref) but you would need six.  The internal teeth would
> make it easy to drive the steering though.  You may be able to put one on
> the front wheel, steer the bogies of the mid wheels and leave the back one
> which would cut it down to three.
> 
> I'm sure someone else will have a better idea though.
> 
> Psi



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: High Strength Powered Steerable pivot wheel
 
(...) I don't think there are any current sets which include it. But... You will have noticed all the traffic about the 'classic' re-releases coming this autumn. 8459 (to be renumbered 8464) Front End Loader has one though 270DM might be a bit (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: High Strength Powered Steerable pivot wheel
 
(...) I think that no current set includes them. But it's available as spare part in the Pitsco/DACTAcatalog (US only). (...) This is actually the same solution I was thinking to implement: steerable front and rear wheels and side wheels driven like (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: High Strength Powered Steerable pivot wheel
 
(...) Do you need to steer each wheel independently? The only really strong turntable element you can also pass a drive through is the Technic Turntable (2855/2856 on Partsref) but you would need six. The internal teeth would make it easy to drive (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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