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Re: Dry Ice on Robot?

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
You'd have a fun argument on your hands if you tried to hold it on the motors yourself. Just used a compressed air can and turn it upside down. Same thing, safer, and probably faster too.
Safer for the humans, but those permanent magnets inside the CIMs (and many other motors) are about as fragile as glass.

Try this: Boil a regular drinking glass, then plunge it into ice cold water. What happens? Yep, same for a ferrite magnet, which means you'll be changing a motor soon.
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