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Originally Posted by Cory
What aluminum gears? VEXPro?
We've used aluminum gears extensively from VEXPro and ones we custom made...never seen one "warp under pressure and get jammed".
It is highly likely you had another issue that was independent of the gear. For sure more information is needed before making a blanket statement that aluminum gears are worse than steel.
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These were the aluminum gears that come with the Andy Mark gearbox. When it was all assembled, we tried manually spinning the shaft (with the CIM attached), and it kept jamming (meaning we couldn't turn it). We disassembled the gearbox and took a closer look at the gears: they were physically warped. Even laying them on a flat surface you could literally see gaps between certain areas of the gear and table. My guess is they were poorly manufactured. However, the steel gears were not warped, and did not jam.