February 18, 2020

Drive Train: We fixed the problems with our gearboxes and tried to diagnose where the clicking sound was coming from. We completely stripped the right side of the robot so only chains and sprockets were on, however the clicking sound was still there. So we stripped it even further until the drive train was only versa blocks, hex shafts and bearings. We turned those and there was no sound, so we realized the problem was most likely in the chain. We then fixed the pushed out bearing problem in the second gearbox.

Right before we left we did a test drive with the driver tryouts layout. The gearboxes seem to be fixed, although we did notice two problems: one of the bolts holding the wheel in fell out and could not be found, and on the other side the colson slid on the hub towards the versa block. The former can be easily fixed by allowing the loctite to cure, while for the latter, we'll probably glue the wheel to the hub, although we have not yet figured out what kind of glue to use.

Intake: We started to figure out where the placements of the vertical hex shafts should be on our indexer.