Very cool stuff! I've been reading papers about these things and playing with designs for the past few days, I really want an excuse to build one.
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Originally Posted by ajlapp
I won't detail them here, but I will tell you that we have a "large" box of failed iterations.  |
Great looking gearbox. I'd love to hear more details on what kind of failures you ran into when going through different designs. I suspect that you need pretty tight tolerances on all of the parts so you land somewhere between "too tight to assemble" and "tore itself apart".
For the ABS approach, I like the idea of cheap printable parts that can be remade when they wear out. We've seen the need for high reduction/low load gearboxes in the past where something like this would work. If we don't need to replace it every few matches, then it might be worth it (entirely depends on what it's being used for).