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Re: pic: we were prototyping and made this sketchy gearbox.

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Originally Posted by fox46 View Post
Gearbox looks good but I worry about what you plan to put on the output of that thing. Remember that very few wheels were ever designed to spin at those kinds of high speeds and whatever does needs to be built to withstand very high centrifugal forces.
Put a guard on whatever you are spinning. People have had trouble with separating tread running at the speed of a CIM motor. With this you are doubling it.

Its awesome, just be very, very careful.

PS: can you post a video once you spin something with it?
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