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Originally Posted by magnets
If you're talking about cutting plates, then your machinist is very wrong.
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He's not wrong, he's absolutely correct... just for a different industry and application.
FRC robots operate for short time periods with near constant maintenance (and in the presence of their techs/designers near 100% of the time). Most industry gearboxes run for several orders of magnitude longer and need to operate w/o any maintenance or failure and the techs/designers aren't't on site for any fix.
As for opening holes, purchasing reamers for the bearing sizes you is a great investment if waterjetting is available to you.
So many good COTS options now though, making your own just isn't as appealing as it used to be.