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Re: Custom Gearboxes
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Originally Posted by cadandcookies
As they say, steal from the best, invent the rest. I'd agree that looking at COTS options and borrowing their ratios is probably the best option for you.
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You could even take it a step further and borrow the entire COTS design, and simply make whatever modifications to the plates and gear setups you deem necessary to get what you want out of it. There's no shame in copy-pasting stuff from a published CAD in FIRST 
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Originally Posted by PingPongPerson
stoichiometry to get from CIM RPM [5000ish] to feet per second
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I don't think that's the word you wanted...
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Last edited by Oblarg : 01-05-2014 at 10:12.
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