Emy

Emy

Tuesday 26 January 2010

R6: More work on the legs








Did a bit more work on the legs tonight and added the ankles units. Again they are made from 3mm hardboard and then covered in filler to give the nice smooth surface. They still need to be sanded down and finished but the legs are now starting to look much better.
I decided to fit the drive units into the feet tonight as well but when I inspected the feet in more detail I noticed that the glue I used to stick them together had not worked very well, infact they fell apart. I then had to spend about half and hour removing the old glue and resticking them with much better glue. They have also been reinforced inside and are now ready to mount the drive units and recieve the battery boxes, still to be made.
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R6: More work on the legs








Did a bit more work on the legs tonight and added the ankles units. Again they are made from 3mm hardboard and then covered in filler to give the nice smooth surface. They still need to be sanded down and finished but the legs are now starting to look much better.
I decided to fit the drive units into the feet tonight as well but when I inspected the feet in more detail I noticed that the glue I used to stick them together had not worked very well, infact they fell apart. I then had to spend about half and hour removing the old glue and resticking them with much better glue. They have also been reinforced inside and are now ready to mount the drive units and recieve the battery boxes, still to be made.
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Sunday 24 January 2010

R6: My R6 moves







I couldnt resist and had to bolt on the legs and feet, power up the motors and see if all this hard work was worth it. YES, it moves, it is alive. There is a great deal of work still to do but I now feel so good knowing that the drive system will work and that the motors are powerful enough to move what is becoming a very heavy R6.I will have to work out a system to lock the ankle joints as under power they currently pivot. These motors have a great deal of torque and put the ankles under a lot of turning force.
I will try and get the body skins drawn out over then ext few days and do a bit more work on the legs.
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R6: My R6 moves







I couldnt resist and had to bolt on the legs and feet, power up the motors and see if all this hard work was worth it. YES, it moves, it is alive. There is a great deal of work still to do but I now feel so good knowing that the drive system will work and that the motors are powerful enough to move what is becoming a very heavy R6.I will have to work out a system to lock the ankle joints as under power they currently pivot. These motors have a great deal of torque and put the ankles under a lot of turning force.
I will try and get the body skins drawn out over then ext few days and do a bit more work on the legs.
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R6: Feet power system





Making the bracket and getting everything to line up perfectly took hours, much longer than I had expected. I really wanted to get some work done on the ankles this weekend but now it looks like this will not happen. I am not very good at working with metal, and if only I could weld this whole process would have taken less time.
The brackets were made up out of some heavy steel square section tubing I had. After a great deal on angle grinding and drilling I eventually have a bracket to fix the feet to the legs and after a test fitting everything seems to line up perfect.
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R6: Feet power system





Making the bracket and getting everything to line up perfectly took hours, much longer than I had expected. I really wanted to get some work done on the ankles this weekend but now it looks like this will not happen. I am not very good at working with metal, and if only I could weld this whole process would have taken less time.
The brackets were made up out of some heavy steel square section tubing I had. After a great deal on angle grinding and drilling I eventually have a bracket to fix the feet to the legs and after a test fitting everything seems to line up perfect.
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R6: Main feet and Power




The lower MDF skirts have been fitted and all three feet have their top skins. The Main feet are still minus the battery boxes and the side that they fit on. You can see from the pictures that the scooters have now been cut down and important parts kept. Apart from removing the rear drum brake all I have doen is essentially cut the back of the scooter. The whole assembly fits perfectly.
All I need to do is construct a bracket to fit the power unit to the legs.
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R6: Main feet and Power




The lower MDF skirts have been fitted and all three feet have their top skins. The Main feet are still minus the battery boxes and the side that they fit on. You can see from the pictures that the scooters have now been cut down and important parts kept. Apart from removing the rear drum brake all I have doen is essentially cut the back of the scooter. The whole assembly fits perfectly.
All I need to do is construct a bracket to fit the power unit to the legs.
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R6: Front Foot





I am going to make this foot exactly the same as I did the R2 front foot. It is very simple and does not really need much explanation. The outer foot is made from hardboard and reinforced inside. The base of each foot with be 18mm MDF which will protect the lower part of the foot and not get damaged in an impact.
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R6: Front Foot





I am going to make this foot exactly the same as I did the R2 front foot. It is very simple and does not really need much explanation. The outer foot is made from hardboard and reinforced inside. The base of each foot with be 18mm MDF which will protect the lower part of the foot and not get damaged in an impact.
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R6 : Power




My two scooters arrived from ebay, £63.00 each. After letting my two sons tear around on them for a couple of hours to give the motors a good test they ended up like this. Hopefully I will be able to use most of the parts in the R6 and anything left over will go back on ebay.
Either I am very lucky or, well lucky, but the motor mounts on the scooters measure up to fit staight into the R6's feet without having to modify the brackets.
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