Thread: Recommendations for chain drive lubrication?
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Re: Recommendations for chain drive lubrication?
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
Just out of curiosity, what issues have people seen from not lubricating chain? I don't think my team has ever lubricated any of our chains, and we still have our robot from Breakaway (2010) driving around as a practice bot on a regular basis, with the original drive train intact (The drive train and frame are the only parts of that robot that are original... everything else has been replaced for various prototyping/training purposes).
Simply put - efficiency. When it gets really bad there can be all sorts of issues including: overheating motors, drivetrains that pull to one side excessively, dramatic power loss, and loosening chains.

Lubricating the chains on our 2012 robot's shooter bumped our range up by 20% or so.
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