Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

A CIM-sim fed into a CIMPle box will give you a 23.8:1 total reduction, albeit using more space, weight, and significantly more money. Unfortunately, the CIM-sim transmissions are also currently out of stock, but I'd expect AndyMark to get them in sooner than the end of build season than Banebots expects to restock the 5:1 stages.

Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

Has anyone else noticed that Robot Marketplace claims to have the BB gearboxes in stock? We ordered a few yesterday and are hoping they are truly in their stock and ship tomorrow.

http://www.robotmarketplace.com/prod...K-55-0004.html

Based on BB's failure every year to meet the FRC short lived seasonal demand, it would seem to me that building a slow stock over the rest of the year of typically used parts and reselling them would be a great business model. Hopefully that is what Robot Marketplace has actually done.

Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

We got a call today, apparently Robot Marketplace was out of stock too, their website inventory was inaccurate. :( I still think stock piling BB gearboxes is a valid business model. If anyone does it, let us know where we can order from next season :)

Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

If you have old P60s(new style) just get the 16 and then replace one 4 stage with a 5.09 stage from the old P60.

Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

Why don't you order the next higher reduction they have in stock and then remove a stage? Anyone with access to a lathe can do it in about 20 minutes! You dissassemble the gearbox, remove a reduction stage, measure the thickness of the unwanted stage and then remove said thickness from the ring gear. QED!

I can't stress how simple and easy this is!

I think that banebots should a) redesign their output shaft assembly and b) provide all teams two 328:1 gearboxes in the KOP. That way everyone gets some P60s and anybody can remove reduction stages to get the gear ratio they want.

Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

RobotShop claims to have some in stock as well:
http://www.robotshop.com/banebots-p6...-grease-4.html
Plus some other combinations of them. I just had my facilitator quiz them and they don't have any 20:1 or 81:1 in stock in any flavor, despite the claims on the website. They claim they have the gearboxes but not the motors for some of the motor+gearbox combos, and they're not willing to split up the combo. You're welcome to try to talk sense into them, but I don't need those badly enough to try to force a company to take my money when they so obviously don't want it.

Re: BaneBot gearboxes out of stock...
 

Just make sure you remove the material from the ring-gear on the right end, the grooves still need to be there!