{"id":24,"date":"2020-07-06T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/uncategorized\/vol-2-page-11-getting-back-to-work-another-approach-to-planetary-gears-failure-update-at-end-of-post\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T02:18:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T02:18:57","slug":"vol-2-page-11-getting-back-to-work-another-approach-to-planetary-gears-failure-update-at-end-of-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/reactionless\/vol-2-page-11-getting-back-to-work-another-approach-to-planetary-gears-failure-update-at-end-of-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol 2, Page 11 – Getting Back To Work & Another Approach to Planetary Gears -FAILURE UPDATE AT END OF POST-"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After some unexpected personal business (death in the family) to be attended to, I am excited to pick up where I left off with the PIE 2.0. I had to remove the test rig from the test vehicle in order to transport several loads of \u201crubbish\u201d from a deceased family member\u2019s apartment to be delivered to either a charity donation center or a dumpster for disposal.<\/div>\n
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The Pie 2.0 is fastened back into the test vehicle, testing routs are mapped out for highway speed testing, and I am ready to start recording data. <\/o:p><\/div>\n
As seen in the photo above, I have also been working on an improved method of obtaining and making planetary gears. The latest idea on this front is an inside-out chain drive\/sprocket assembly. I don\u2019t think that it is a long-term production solution, but it seems to present a reasonably inexpensive alternative to making gears from scratch. <\/o:p><\/div>\n
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The nice people at www.RollerChain4less.com<\/a>(Nitro Power Products, LLC) have 17-tooth idler sprockets with a 5\/8\u201d bore bearing installed  <\/span>(P\/N: 40BB17-5\/8) available for $11.98 USD at the time of this writing. They also have 17 tooth plate sprockets with a 5\/8\u201d center hole (P\/N: 40A17) available for $5.75 USD at this same time.  <\/span>Feet of #40 roller chain from them (P\/N: RC40-1R-10FT) is just $16.37 USD, and they are one of the few companies that offer specialty connector links known as \u201cAttachment Connecting Links\u201d very reasonably (less than $2 each).<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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So the inside out chain sprocket is basically removing the teeth from a plain sprocket and fastening a chain to it in place of the missing teeth, effectively this creates a \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d gear set. The chain can have the rollers lay into the remaining recesses of the original tooth pattern and can either be welded in several spots, or connected at the ends with an offset link and fastened to the gear with \u201cattachment\u201d links. I chose to simply weld the chain onto the modified sprocket it for the first prototype gear. I cannot tell you how it is going to work out yet, as most of my shop time is being used  <\/span>to adjust and collect PIE 2.0 test data.<\/div>\n
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A quick update, gear failure with pictures:<\/div>\n
I attempted to install a pivot for the weight on the idler sprocket. These idler sprockets are hardened. The weld will break off with little effort, and if you do manage to get a hole drilled trough the gear, tightening a 6 mm bolt is enough to crack the gear. The plate sprockets are plain steel and can be drilled and welded, so I guess I will be mounting a bearing on one of them.<\/div>\n

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Next Gen Test Gear After some unexpected personal business (death in the family) to be attended to, I am excited to pick up where I left off with the PIE 2.0. I had to remove the test rig from the test vehicle in order to transport several loads of \u201crubbish\u201d from a deceased family member\u2019s apartment … Continue reading “Vol 2, Page 11 – Getting Back To Work & Another Approach to Planetary Gears -FAILURE UPDATE AT END OF POST-“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,10,14,4,6,12,15,11,9,3,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brandson-roy-thornson","category-ezkl","category-grassroots-mechanic-movement","category-hybrid","category-inertial-drive","category-pie","category-pie-2-0","category-plug-in-hybrid","category-propulsion","category-pulsed-inertial-engine","category-reactionless","category-reactionless-propulsion","category-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}