[Kevin Ray]

Originally Posted by EricH

One final item: [geezer]Back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled 3-CIM gearboxes! All we had was drill motors, with drill gearboxes! Had ta make 'em shifting ourselves! COTS parts? HA! Had to build the entire robot, 'cept the KOP! More than 2 CIMS? HA! We was lucky to get that! You young whippersnappers have everything handed to you! Ya wouldn't last 2 days if you had to build all this stuff yourself![/geezer] Incidentally, there's some truth to that... 4 CIMs weren't an option until my third year on a team.

Man! Now THOSE were the days... We'd spend 2-3 weeks just getting the drive train to work.

Now, so as to not hijack this thread, I'd like to have a set of hole cutters like these: http://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/98332570 but 5 thou undersized so that we could press fit bearings into the hole.