Gear drive concept: 90° motor mount?

[cfelzien]

Makita angle grinder

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Making use of the Spiral Gear Drives

I’d like to share with you my adaptation of these drives for Surf Rodz RKP. The spiral gear drives have been out for a while following the development (@MorrisHsu) and group buy last year. Though I haven’t really seen anyone using them on the regular. Owning the kit myself there are a few obvious reasons why. On the original assembly this part (in red) was one of the weakest links. Too much play and not a great fit, with cast Calibers you can only expect so much. This setup didn’t really lend i…

[alexnz]

@Andy089

That would mean one could mount very large motors on very small axles. This is just not possible with any other drive.

Well, there’s nothing really that prevents anyone to mount the motors outwards. Just a matter of choices or tradeoffs. Depends if you value having standard width trucks, over the fact that the can is poking out on the side.

[tech.shit]

Damn I wanna get a set of these