10/26/16

This week was spent more on cad than anything else, with the motor already selected, it was relatively easy to model the motor as well as a mounting bracket to attach it to attach it to the bogie as seen in the images below. In addition, a bevel gear, which was taken from a part supplier site, was mounted to the drive shaft of the motor and bogie, rotating the motion by 90 degrees. As fair as the brakes are concerned, we would have to go with something more compact than a disk brake to fit it onto the main axel. Even the smallest disk brake, which can be seen in the images below cannot fit into the tight space where the gears and motor are located. For this reason, we are looking at using a belt brake, which are typically used on pocket bikes due to their small form factor