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On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:29:57PM -0400, Timothy J. Weber wrote:
> > Of course they didn't fit length wise until I tilted them ever so
> > slightly...
> > 
> > http://petertodd.org/art/8-2-automaton/imgs/pcb-assembly-full.jpg
> 
> It's an impressive array, and I'm glad I wasn't there for the final 
> plugging of motors to drivers.

Be glad! The leads on the motors are rather short.

> But... are they tilted up from the horizontal, or just around the 
> vertical axis?  If it's the latter, I'm not sure I get why it helped... 
> though it definitely looks more aesthetically interesting.

Looking at it I'm not so sure either. I tried playing around with the
original cad files, the boards are rotated 9.78 degrees, and the after
rotation clearance from board to board is 0.05 less than before rotating
it.

My best guess is that after rotating the *mounting* posts have about
double the clearance between them, an extra tenth of an inch. I must
have been thinking how I was going to get a tool in there to tighten
them.

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