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These are all super trivial complaints and have no bearing on the functionality of the product.
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Yes, they do. Having to remove the plate to remove a shaft to remove a CIM motor is a little silly, just because the retaining ring is a little big, but I don't really see how this can be fixed.
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Why would you expect anything other than the bearing that is currently in the gear to fit perfectly (for the record, we loctite every bearing we press)?
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Because it's advertised with a 1.125" bearing bore, not with a hex bearing pressed in with locktite. And besides, having a flanged bearing with the flange just sitting out in the middle of nowhere isn't "fitting perfectly" to begin with.
When we bought our gear, it said nowhere that a bearing would come with it. I'm not complaining about our free hex bearing, but we planned on putting a not-hex bearing in the gear.
Normally we use 1.1245 holes, because at that size, there isn't much slop in the fit. The vex bearing bore on one gear was 1.13.
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Have you really seen a dog fail because the teeth didn't have radiused corners? I haven't. The weakest portion of a dog is the threaded hole. If anything the corner that you want radiused is at the base of the tooth, not the vertical edges. We have run unradiused edge dogs with zero issue.
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I'm not sure my first post was clear. I'm talking about a radius between the horizontal surface of the dog, and the vertical surface used to transfer torque to the gear.
Yes, our kicker in 2010. The problem went away after using a ball nose endmill.
Do you really use an endmill with no radius to cut your dog gears?
Again-I think vex products are among the best we've seen from an FRC supplier, but I'm just curious as to why some parts are the way they are.