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Re: Pressing Pinion onto Banebot RS775

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
Anyone have an opinion of plopping an AM planetary into a 3-stage GEM-500 and driving it with the 775 with a drilled out and pressed on FP pinion? And then maybe go 3 or 4:1 in sprockets and chains to an arm with say 75 ft-lbs of torque at the arm joint. Doing the same with a P60 worries me a little.

I reckon it'd work mighty-fine, and be a good deal stronger than a P60, due to the all-steel 20DP gears. Anyone agree? I take it's rather easy to modify the AM planetary motor plate to accept the 775?
My intuition says that it'll work fine. 75lb-ft at the arm joint? o.O remember that the RS775 (or any motor) won't put out "stall torque" for any appreciable amount of time, it's breaker will trip.
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