Thread: Bearings vs. Bushings in Gearboxes + All-Belt Gearbox?
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Re: Bearings vs. Bushings in Gearboxes + All-Belt Gearbox?
Is this a drive gearbox? How many cims do you have on it?

I have no guarantee that 6mm wide GT2 will handle the power of even 1 cim. 9mm wide GT2 and 6mm wide GT3 will work fine for a cim on the first stage. I haven't tried using 3mm pitch on anything other than the first stage and I would worry about torque capacity. I recommend looking at gates belt power tables and compare the values with what you know works. You can't take their values at absolute face value because we don't know what a good correction factor is for FRC use, extremely harsh conditions but also extremely short acceptable lifetime.
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