Thread: Gearbox for mechanism or appendage
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Andrew Duerner Andrew Duerner is offline
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Re: Gearbox for mechanism or appendage
Michael, I torqued the gearbox unpowered with some lever arms until it broke apart. I would estimate that it reached around 50 ft-lbs.

Adam, I built a website, I'm a mechanical engineer so no making fun of it looking like its from 2004, I need to go through the rules on mentioning trademarked names or just delete them, after I do that I'll post the website address and they can be purchased through the Paypal payment system with a credit card.

Paul, I did some patent searching, I couldn't find anything that the design violated, If you know something in particular that may be a problem I would welcome any information. I haven't experienced oscillations besides having to counterweight the input cam/oscillator. Plastic gears do have their limits, obviously I wouldn't recommend this for an industrial robot, but for FRC robot that needs to run for limited amount of time, I believe it can work.

-Andrew