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Originally Posted by waialua359
We found out the hard way losing in the Hawaii regional this year.
Our 14T aluminum hex gear and another of our aluminum VEXPro gear lost teeth in one of our trans. Could not swap out the trans in time for the next semis match.
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This is exactly why we lost the quarterfinals at Tech Valley; we saw that the gear was starting to strip, but the repair/swap would take too long. We hoped to survive through the tournament and would have made the semifinals if we could have driven ten more feet--but alas, it gave up the ghost on the wrong side of the (open) Sally Port.
We switched to toughboxes with aggressively-lightened steel gears for FLR and had no drivetrain issues throughout.