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Re: RIP Banebot RS550

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
The lack of thermal mass and the speed at which they burn or have led us to move almost exclusively to cims and bags.
I'm curious if you allowed for proper air intake in your gearbox design? That was a leading cause of failure I found a few years ago. Some of the gearboxes for the RS775 and RS550 actually blocked the intake and required some machining of air slots.