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Re: Cheap gearboxes (DeWalt and Globe) for Offseason project

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
If I was looking looking for cheap and high reduction, Banebots planetaries, VPs, and custom gearboxes would be my first choices in that order.
Some places like Robot Marketplace sell drill gearboxes.
Robot Marketplace's DeWalt gearbox was a possibility but it needs a pinion gear and I can't find any information on ordering them (Robot Marketplace does not sell them it seems). At one point FIRST teams would order them for the NBD idea but the links I can find are dead and no one seems to have posted the details (tooth, pitch, pressure angle) so that I could attempt to find a source.

The P60 is possible although the specific reductions they offer are so so (16:1 is not enough but the next step up is too much). The VP is my best option sticking with normal FIRST parts but it gets rather pricey for 4 of them. Both of these are good thoughts but I want to see if anyone has any off the wall ideas before I commit $300.
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