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Re: how to make dual gearbox
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Originally Posted by Potatoes
yeah we don't have time to buy one, is there a way to make it ourselves?
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Making gearboxes is very difficult without precision machining equipment, and even with precision machining equipment it is time-consuming. What do you have on hand in the way of gears? It's worth noting that you're probably going to need some sort of multi-stage gearbox to get a BAG motor to a reasonable output speed, and those are necessarily more difficult to make than single-stage gearboxes.
You might be best off designing for a COTS product that you know you won't receive in time, and then mounting it on practice day (or during your allotted out-of-bag time if you're in a district system).
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Last edited by Oblarg : 15-02-2015 at 23:14.
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