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Unread 24-01-2013, 12:19
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Re: pic: we were prototyping and made this sketchy gearbox.

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
What gears are those?
They are the FTC gears we had left over from minibots from 2011. It gears up the CIMs 1:2 using 80 and 40 tooth gears.

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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.
It will be driving a shooter wheel, and for safety it will be tested within the confines of a lexan box. We did manage to break a tread before, and it was stopped by the box.
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