Re: 56mm Banebot problems @ Championship
 

If you can do it with a simple spur or sprocket reduction, or by using an Andymark product, avoid the banebots.

I guess you can say they are reliable enough. But the huge variances among them, and the fact that the AM products I've used have far fewer failures (if any), convince me to avoid them.

Really, it's a matter of doing something possibly more easily at first, at the risk of having to completely overhaul it later.