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Originally Posted by Justin Montois

After some pretty serious discussion recently on our team and decent arguments made back and forth, I'm even more interested in the transmission discussion between making custom transmissions or going with COTS transmissions.

If some of you wouldn't mind, I would really appreciate some insight into your thought process when making this decision. It's no secret that some elite teams (254, 118, 1625) make custom transmissions. I don't think they are simply trying to make FRC harder on themselves. There must be a significant benefit to fabricating custom transmissions.

Teams that don't make custom transmissions, why don't you?

Teams that do make custom transmissions, why do you?

I look forward to the discussion.

It really comes down to resources, knowledge, and money. I honestly don't know anything else that could really explain why teams do/do not make their own transmissions.

EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, anyone could make their own transmissions with a simple lathe and mill. That's pretty much all you need for it. However, the benefit of actually making one may not be positive in the long run.