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Re: Team 449 Climber

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Originally Posted by T^2 View Post
Your gearbox will fail you after a regional's worth of matches, maybe sooner. The aluminum ring gear will flex enough to allow the planet gears to ratchet, and you will lose the climb.
Are you sure? The 50:1/mini-CIM combo is labeled as acceptable by VexPro's documentation, and as noted above we're not actually anywhere near the peak loading on it.
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