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Re: pic: 1156 Off season Fisher-Price gearbox

The gears inside the "stock" FP gearbox are plastic. It looks like the 1156 actually used the first stage gears straight from that here.

The FP motor is an air-cooled motor (like the AM-9015 and the BaneBots motors). If it stops spinning it loses its cooling and burns up very quickly. This is also the first stage off the motor, and this motor does not generate a lot of torque off the shaft (high speed, low torque). The motor will stall long before the plastic gear strips, and then you let the magic smoke out and that lovely burnt motor smell fills the air.

Offseason on CD is filled with so many drivetrain ideas and prototypes that we tend to forget not every project that gets posted is for a drivetrain. The output of this gearbox is far better suited to an intake or shooter wheel than it is something like a drivetrain.
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