Hey all,
I'm a student/hobbyist working on a robotics project. I got some tracks relatively cheap from what I'm told was a ditch Witch SK-500 or SK-550 compatible system. I'm trying to make a rover like robot with them. There's a low res picture attached, let me know if more images are useful. The basic problem is I need to get drive sprockets for the robot.
Basically, I'm either looking for a pair of drive sprockets for them or guidance on machining them. I have access to a tabletop CNC which I figure can take care of a lot of the machining work if I couldn't find a pair first. I managed to find some relatively close up pictures of the sprockets from eBay listings and such. Of course if someone here actually had a sprocket and could take a picture of it for my dimensioning, I would be much obliged.
For what I have, I'd estimate there are suppose to be 10 teeth on the sprockets. Of course, if I redesigned them, I could make larger sprockets. I'd imagine smaller ones would put too much stress on the tracks. My tracks say on them "DW 180 X 72 X 39" "(TR logo) TAERYUK" "KS8". If I recall from the numbering system and this lines up from my measurements, there are 39 teeth and they are about 7.2" across. I'm not quite sure what the 180 means though, it seems like they are closer to 110" long.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: Ditch Witch told me the part number is 140-1085
I'm a student/hobbyist working on a robotics project. I got some tracks relatively cheap from what I'm told was a ditch Witch SK-500 or SK-550 compatible system. I'm trying to make a rover like robot with them. There's a low res picture attached, let me know if more images are useful. The basic problem is I need to get drive sprockets for the robot.
Basically, I'm either looking for a pair of drive sprockets for them or guidance on machining them. I have access to a tabletop CNC which I figure can take care of a lot of the machining work if I couldn't find a pair first. I managed to find some relatively close up pictures of the sprockets from eBay listings and such. Of course if someone here actually had a sprocket and could take a picture of it for my dimensioning, I would be much obliged.
For what I have, I'd estimate there are suppose to be 10 teeth on the sprockets. Of course, if I redesigned them, I could make larger sprockets. I'd imagine smaller ones would put too much stress on the tracks. My tracks say on them "DW 180 X 72 X 39" "(TR logo) TAERYUK" "KS8". If I recall from the numbering system and this lines up from my measurements, there are 39 teeth and they are about 7.2" across. I'm not quite sure what the 180 means though, it seems like they are closer to 110" long.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: Ditch Witch told me the part number is 140-1085
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