On Friday I was teaching Miles how to turn a bushing. When we came back on Monday, Miles realized that the issue with the golf cart didn’t come from the axial tolerances, so a new bushing wouldn’t solve the issue.
So I decided to turn the piece of brass we were using into a ring.
I went on an adventure these past few weeks trying to make a new website on Hugo. I wanted to use the same template as Miles because I thought that it looked the best. I also thought that he would be able to help me if I had issues. I stole a ton of his valuable time having him help me with my website. I could only do one of the following things at one time: host my site on the web, have custom content on my home page, have a post that functions. After failing for several weeks Miles and I decided that I should use a new less broken template.
I started the week by rotating the handles / mounting bars 45 degrees. Then I created a mounting system for the thrusters in the position the bars were.
Next I inserted the thrusters. I then had a discussion with Miles and Oscar about issues with the design.
The main problem was that the thrusters would take all of the load if the ROV was set down on them. To solve this I designed a thruster shroud made out of 1/8″ steel pipe. The design has a flat portion that is sandwiched between the thrusters and their mounting plate. This way the force would be directly transferred to the structural frame of BOB ROV.
The other main issue was that the space between the handles and the main tube was 0.8″. This would have been too small to grab, so I redesigned the split collars to increase the space to 1″.
