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Re: pic: Team 3647: Gearbox
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Originally Posted by jason701802 View Post
That's a beauty, but it's an absolute beast. You certainly won't have to worry about breaking it. If you want to cut some weight, you could use much smaller gears and axles, especially for the first 2 stages.
The first stage is actually a plastic [Delrin] gear from WCP. Also all the other gears are aluminium so they don't weigh that much to begin with, when I get my hands on some 7072 3/8 Alum Hex we will be using that as well in place of the 1240 steel shafts currently in the box.
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