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dtengineering 10-02-2009 02:13
Re: pic: Ungreased toughboxes!!!!
 
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Originally Posted by SlimBoJones (Post 817459)
Jason,

We've been really "lucky" this year to have had a lot of time to drive on the playing surface so far during build season.

...
I guess take this as a public service announcement:

Grease your ToughBoxes!
Be nice to your Jaguars!

If there's any advice I'd give from Team 188 to other teams, it would be that.

Even though we expected the low-friction environment would be "easier" on our drive components, we've quickly found out that this may be the most taxing year we've ever witnessed on a drivetrain in FRC.
Well, we hope to follow your lead, even though we have yet to officially drive our full robot. Our robot has been built entirely in detachable modules that bolt on and off the frame. Two drive modules, a control module, and a ball handling module. The goal was to get it so that two drive modules and the control module would come in under 40 pounds. Right now we're at 46 pounds.

If we can shave six pounds off of there (shouldn't be hard... we'll just ship the CIMs and toughbox gears, and replace them with spares off last year's machine for practicing) then we should be able to get some similarly crazy practice driving time in, too, as we have five or so weeks between ship date and Seattle.

I really hope that if we blow any components that it will be in practice... competition is sufficiently intense when everything is working well!

Good luck, and thanks for highlighting the grease issue.

Jason

DGrohnke1023 12-02-2009 23:00
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That gear looks strangly familar.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/26520

We ran the 06 season with no grease, and had the same problem postseason. Our excuse was they didn't tell us to grease them in the assembly video. But, no one caught it all year. We grease our gearboxes now.

keehun 15-02-2009 22:49
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Wow, just happened to us... Thankfully it didn't happen at the competition..

keehun
Team 2502

dani190 15-02-2009 23:06
Re: pic: Ungreased toughboxes!!!!
 
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Originally Posted by keehun (Post 821687)
Wow, just happened to us... Thankfully it didn't happen at the competition..

keehun
Team 2502
no grease?

Trent B 16-02-2009 10:58
Re: pic: Ungreased toughboxes!!!!
 
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Originally Posted by dani190 (Post 821707)
no grease?
Yep, and evidently it was a bad assumption to make that they would grease em... (says the electrical guy)

tanmaker 16-02-2009 11:18
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This would have happened to us at competition if it hadn't been for this thread. I saw this and called a few guys over to check out the picture. After the "Oh dang!"-s subsided, I asked the guys that put them together, "Uh, we greased our toughboxes, right?" Nobody answered, which was soon follow by everyone rushing to the shop to take apart both transmissions and lube 'em up :yikes:

dani190 16-02-2009 11:26
Re: pic: Ungreased toughboxes!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent B (Post 822023)
Yep, and evidently it was a bad assumption to make that they would grease em... (says the electrical guy)
lol...:P

suj 16-02-2009 11:29
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not so tough now are you toughbox


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