[Tom Line]

I'm sorry, but working or not this is an extremely bad suggestion. What if that small bit of 'residue' is actually a sizeable chunk of metal? You can potentially spot weld the battery leads to the motor and cause someone serious injury. I've seen this happen when someone tried something similar with a fan.

We'll try something tomorrow, but we'll do it through a 40 amp snap action and see if we have any luck with that.

I will also add that this will likely be the swan song for the use of banebots hardware for our team (unless we're forced into it by FIRST continuing to use their motors). After '07, the transmissions, and now incredibly poor quality control on their motors, we've had enough.

We have enough build season issues without having to RMA things we've bought and redesign major components because of a lack of timely shipping.