Hey guys! You've been asking for more one-day builds
so me and Bogdan are gonna have a one-day build off
to motorize these drift trikes and then have a race.
And to do so we've actually teamed up with Litheli Tools
which makes awesome landscaping lithium-ion power tools.
So a few months ago Litheli Tools sent us their
entire line of lithium-ion power tools.
Now, while the tools are great at
landscaping we're not a landscaping company.
We're gonna hack them together
and use the motors to motorized these drift trikes.
Plus they sent us so many batteries we'll be able to race non-stop.
Alright so Bogdan we're gonna do a
one-day build off and motorized some drift trikes and then race them.
Litheli sent us all these tools.
So...
What tools do you want?
Alright well my favorite tool is an angle grinder.
So I am taking the chainsaws.
Yeah chainsaws are basically angle grinders.
And you guys know that I have a certain affinity to
anything jet powered so I'm totally going with all these leaf blowers to
power my drift trike!
I know exactly what he's gonna do.
These leaf blowers are gonna be awesome!
My plan is I'm gonna mount all three leaf blowers off of the
back of the drift trike which will give me a boost when I'm pedaling.
But!
To make it more interesting I'm gonna give it a drifting ability so what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna put them all on a pivot so when you turn the steering wheel it
actually turns the leaf blowers opposite to the direction you're turning to put
you into that drift so hypothetically this means any time you turn it's gonna
drift hopefully it works.
So the reason I actually chose the chainsaws is cuz
they're gonna have a lot of torque,
especially considering their lithium powered.
Hey James! Hey! Hey!
Guess who's got the superior weapon now? James: What is that we're not-
Bogdan: It's the superior weapon!
James: That's the chainsaw paddle from Dead Rising-
we're building drift trikes!
Bogdan: That's way less fun.
Before we get started,
we should actually find out how much thrust these leaf blowers actually
put out so I've teared the scale and now I'm holding the leaf blower and
hypothetically if I shoot it downwards I should produce...
About two pounds of thrust so...
That's really not that much but it's a good thing I got three,
which should be a whopping six pounds of thrust.
that's really not that much but I think it's gonna work.
It's my toolbox. get away!
We don't need these parts.
There, we're done!
So, I need to build a little platform to mount all three of these to,
that can also swivel.
Each leaf blower needs to swivel on the plate.
I need...
Baby lazy Susan's, field trip to Rona!
So the nice thing with chainsaws
is that they actually have
a pinion on the end to run the chain so I'm hoping that we can have
some kind of chain to replace this and just make the back wheels chain drive.
Let's get a nice powerful motor going.
Chain.
I gotta put his bike back so he doesn't even know we were here.
Did he get paint? Why do they need paint?
Wait, this is for something else.
We need casters.
So, they didn't have the lazy susans
but when I was in Rona I thought:
What if we just used casters and removed the wheel?
And, luckily, we have casters!
This could work because we could bend these down screw them on and then... Yeah.
Step one: remove the nuts.
Step two: we must remove the wheels.
So, the question is how do we
uniformly bend these nicely
without
messing everything up?
Now I just have to do that twice more.
Alright so I've got my swively caster wheel bearings done.
Which means all I have to do,
is mount them.
Look at that, one securely mounted swively boy
So we got two actual sets of sprockets for a go-kart.
Wait where's half our sprockets?
Did they take half our sprockets?
Where is my wheel!?
Where is my wheel?!
Where the hell did he put my wheel?
Oh my god James...
We just need to mount that right there.
That's how this is supposed to go so.
If I can just machine out the center of this,
then I should be able to basically
take that, weld that right there,
put a c-clip on there.
Okay I need to go machine that out to fit this.
So now I got a sprocket here, I just machined out that.
A couple of welds right around there.
Let's see if they fit.
That's a really good fit.
Alright so what I'm gonna do right now is I'm actually going to add in an extra switch
line to each of these that comes outside of it that I can then plug in to one
master switch so with the press of one button I can turn on all 3 leaf blowers.
Let's solder those up.
Alright there's one done under the next one.
To turn on the drift trike all we got to do is plug in these three wires into the three
leaf blowers.
And then you put this in your mouth
and as long as you touch your tongue
between the two contacts you'll go.
[ZAP]
Wow, there is voltage going through it!
So these things have a safety trigger
to make sure you're actually meaning to turn it on
which we're just gonna zip-tie down.
There we go, now it turns on.
My engine modules are complete!
Hey Bogdan, look at my engine modules!
Look at that hair!
Alright so we got this one which is a 62
hopefully fits inside
the wheel without the chain scraping the floor that'll be pretty unfortunate.
And then I got this 58.
Let's go model these up, throw the wheel
into there make some brackets and mouth everything together.
Let's go cut this out on the plasma cutter.
Not the shiniest pieces I've ever made but I think it'll hold up.
We need some spacers, need some screws of that size
make sure that everything aligns nicely.
And if one works then we can go to make the second one
otherwise our gonna change the design.
James stop touching my stuff oh my god!
I don't even want to walk away from my workbench
just cuz I'm gonna come
back to have my tools missing.
BOTH OF THEM ARE MISSING!
Where- I saw you-.
I know they're somewhere here.
Should we try all three at once?
It works!
Hahahaha!
Fan-tastic on to the next step.
we're gonna get rid of this
this is in the way.
I want to keep it DIY
So we should go with wood.
So we got this little bracket on the side now
we should be able to mount our gears onto that.
That's one wheel.
Chain fits pretty well,
should be able to spin that nicely.
Now let's hope it fits onto the bike.
Pretty wobbly there, but it's a drift trike, should be fine.
All we have to do now
is drill three holes!
Let's mount those... like that.
Then all we have to do is
make a linkage bar across them
and we're pretty well good to go!
Alright well James is back working
they seem to have the electronics done but,
you know what?
Their design was flawed from the start,
so I'm not too worried.
Still drives! Let's get the chains on there.
I don't know what I was thinking I attached this.
Getting so close!
It's starting to take shape!
Look at that!
Look. At. That.
Moment of truth.
Should be able to mount this right here
just gonna cut that off.
See, if I was James, I'd clamp that there and call it done.
Now that that's done
let's put it all back together and see if we can drive this thing.
I can't believe his works.
So I just need a little toggle switch.
To the soldering room!
And how do I mounts this to this?
Tada!
And ready to go.
Weeeee!
This isn't even my final form!
I think we need both of them on here.
Okay so I think I'm gonna use these.
So if I'm drifting I can just turn one on and then the other one or both.
I got the switch hooked up for the animal controls so we should be able to just
power it up and see if there's spin and give it a test drive.
Alright it's done!
Let's see what she can do.
No, not the Cybertruck!
Alright I call that a success. Let's mount these!
That's it.
Race tomorrow...
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James: Ouuuu! I'm getting faster!
Bogdan: Oh no! I got banana stuck to my wheel.
James: I win!
Alright that worked out way better than I thought it did-
thought it would.
The leaf blowers were definitely the superior choice in
this drift trike race off and I really liked how I had this linkage that
actually helps redirect the thrust as your steering and when I was racing it
did actually help because when I was coming out of a drift I could actually
straighten up and these would help me stop drifting and continue going
forwards the other beauty was because they're leaf blowers basically the faster
you go it keeps adding on because it's a constant about three Newton's of force,
thrust coming out the back so I was able to continue accelerating whereas Bogdan
kind of hit like a top speed and that's why I was able to almost lap him by the
end of of the race.
Well I'm obviously a little upset that I didn't win I
definitely think that this design had the potential to do that, I'm quite happy
with how the change turned out I think that the ratios are pretty decent and
the tension on the chain actually turned out really really well and it's all very solid.
Unfortunately these chainsaws they're
designed to spin a chain at high speeds and even with the gearing ratios
they're really really stressing themselves out when I was going into
turns or trying to go a little slower because the clutch was slipping.
So if I was to fix some of the design or make any future modifications I'd definitely lock
that clutch out, it would draw a little more power from the motor but I think
the Litheli power tools could handle it and it would hopefully give me a little
bit more power in those slow speeds and allow me to get up to speed a little quicker.
Alright so that was an awesome one-day hackathon competition if you
guys like this let us know in the comments below it was a lot of fun and I
think we could have a lot more fun if we do it with more of the team members and
more of the engineers on a future video so let us know in the comments if you
want to see that and once again big thing to Litheli Tools for sending us
all these awesome power tools.
Plus you can get 15% off their tools and the free
USB adapter if you click the link below, these tools are a Hacksmith approved.
Now, it's time to take it to the road.
Even though James won the race I've spent some time modifying my design and
welding the clutches together to show the true power of the Litheli Tools.
And the nice thing is we've got an extra one so I can put it on James's bike and have fair race.