Motor Car |  English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2017-01-16

This small toy car is made from its kit. However, you can try and improvise it yourself. Here you can see this car moving forwards. The car is powered by a 9-volt battery and a toy motor. As you switch ON the car moves. All these parts will assemble and make a car. On a base board is mounted a 9-volt battery, On-Off switch, and a toy motor with a pulley. Here is the underside of the base board with slits to snap the wheel mountings. When the switch is put ON the motor and the pulley spins. Here are two pairs of wheels, axles, a pulley, rubber band and their mountings. Press fit the pulley on the axle. Place the rubber band on the pulley. Then push a loose mounting on both sides of the axle. Finally, press fit the wheels on both ends of the axle. Assemble the second pair of wheels. Only there will be no pulley in this pair. The wheel mounting have lugs which snap fit into the base. Fix both pairs of wheels on to the car chassis. The wheel pair with the pulley should be just below the motor. Finally connect the motor pulley to the axle pulley with a rubber band. The car is assembled and ready to run. On operating the switch the motor will spin. The drive will be transmitted from the motor to the axle via the pulley-rubber band. On keeping the car on the floor it will move forwards. This is a delightful toy for all children.
 
This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

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Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta