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Subject: 
Re: Jumping 'bots?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:51:36 GMT
Original-From: 
Chris Osborn <FOZZTEXX@FOZZTEXXsaynotospam.COM>
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On Dec. 01 99, 09:42 PST, "The WordMeister" <dwilcox@wordsmithdigital.com>
wrote:

Whoops--forgot to mention: The big tires actually, if spun fast
enough, will slip off the hubs. Apparently there's enough force--if
it's turning fast enough--to stretch out the tire to the point
where it can slide off the hub.  The MindStorms motors are geared
down, but the old-style 4.5V Expert Builder/Technic motor
(http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=1175-1 ) would actually
run fast enough to do this.

Yep, used to do this all the time. Managed to snap the tip off my
4.5 volt motor by sticking it in one of those large wheels, with
an axle out the other side and using it as a powered "top".

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Chris Osborn                      FozzTexx Enterprises
707 226 7629 - Voice              2136 Coronado Ave.
707 581 1797 - Fax                Napa, CA 94559
<fozztexx@fozztexx.com>           <http://www.fozztexx.com/>



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  Re: Jumping 'bots?
 
Whoops--forgot to mention: The big tires actually, if spun fast enough, will slip off the hubs. Apparently there's enough force--if it's turning fast enough--to stretch out the tire to the point where it can slide off the hub. The MindStorms motors (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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