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Trippy Wheel replacement

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When I originally built Trippy, all I could get were the hard nylon wheels but Brynn kept after the guy at some company, and eventually the guy went to Germany (no doubt to get Brynn to quit bugging him) and he came back with small rubber wheels for me!!! But this means that I need to take the whole terrible mechanism apart again. This is a really hard to assemble contraption. You can see a blow-up image here. This page shows the dis assembly process

The Trippy motor driver project

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Checking the schematic against the reference documents. 		Image02.jpg
Can you see the four wires that are going to the wrong place?

Taking it apart

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Before the pit stop to change wheels 		Image04.jpg
Wheel assemblies off. 		Image05.jpg
I have NO IDEA why I have soo many wheels! 		Image06.jpg
The rubber wheel with one roller removed.
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Wheel assembly before wheel removal. You can see one roller removed. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one! 		Image11.jpg
To get a roller pin pressed out, grow two extra hands. Notice the tape? I'm about to press out the wrong roller. BooHoo. 		Image12.jpg
Now, you can barely get at the bolts holding the motor in place.
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Now, you can get to the inner bearing screw. 		Image14.jpg
And FINALLY, all apart! I had to take out THREE rollers before I got the right one! 		Image15.jpg
Only one more to go!
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I might as well change the motor mounts a little bit while they are off. I'll cut out some of the un needed metal so you can see the wheels better.

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