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Re: pic: 3D Printed FTC Sprockets

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
I'd be concerned about the metal chain on the ABS wearing down... I'll likely end up printing some vex gears and doing wear testing to see how those hold up. If anyone wants to run these tests for me let me know, I'll print out some gears and mail them out. I'll talk to a local VRC team tonight.


Probably won't do those in nylon though since I don't have a lot of that (just a sample to test printing with) and I don't want to order new material until late December. (I already have 4kg of ABS sitting around, I need 2 KG or PLA and 1 KG each of Nylon and "wood")
I printed some Vex gears over the summer (going to try to finish and have one of each gear). The quality is not the best but I'm going to do some experimenting with different printers to see what turns out the best.

I see them as being useful for
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