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Re: CIM-U-LATORS

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Originally Posted by topgun View Post
So if you guys are so great, why did you as a mentor for an 8 year old team order not one, not two, but 20 P60s? Surely you could have built your own gearboxes, probably with one hand behind your back and going uphill both ways.

My point still stands. FIRST distributes four motors, with no gearboxes, no pinions, and the supplier is 10 - 15 days behind. The build season isn't exactly the time to be experimenting at building a gearbox. Many teams will learn to build gearboxes in the future, and many have put forth some great workarounds, but for many younger teams and rookies, the banebot problem is a major headache.

You need to remember that not every team has engineering mentors. Not everyone team has access to lots of cash to experiment with. Even with those, not every team has access to the tools needed to build a gearbox. Even using CAD for many teams is a challenge.
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