Improving your Antweight's Shafts - Patching an Antweight Ep01

Shafts, Smooth Rods, and Screws...Of course I am talking about robot drive systems. The front idler shafts of my Antweight combat robot have been a problem since the very beginning. Today, I am taking another look at a solution using shoulder bolts as drive shafts.

[@bami2]

Hoping that now the bolt is recessed a bit more into the wheel, there is also a bit less chance for getting a direct hit from another weapon.
3:58 if your topology isn't too bad, you can probably select edge loops like this by holding control+alt and left clicking on one of the edges (the line between two vertices that are part of the loop).

[@RockoRobotics]

That’s an interesting point about the recessed drive shaft. I’ve got armor to help prevent those kind of hits, but it is a valuable tip for other robot designs.