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Re: Versa Planetary v2 (3:1) Planet Gear Seizing

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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint View Post
We had a problem with a brand new 3:1 not fitting into the ring gear correctly. We had bought two so we tried the other one without incident. Swapped them out and the problem stayed with 3:1 not the ring.

I contacted VEX and they shipped a new one out ASAP and requested the bad one be returned (on their dime). New one works perfect.

Please stress to your students that if they don't go together easy and can be hand turned inside the ring gear, they may have an out of spec 3:1.

Contact VEX if you get some bad ones. Great folks and great service.
I just want to reiterate this. FRC suppliers (especially VEX/IFI, AndyMark, Rev) are generally very helpful if you reach out to them with a polite email. A lot of the people at these places are passionate about FIRST and want to see teams using their stuff succeed. The five minutes it takes to write an email to them can really help with solving many issues.
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