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Originally posted by Ken Patton
That is one problem with swapping thw gear out - if you burn up an FP motor, you need to have a spare with the right gear on it, or be ready to modify a borrowed motor in the pits.
Ken
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It's not really that hard. You can custom fabricate a small device that latches onto the motor, and you just smack it with a hammer a few times and out pops the gear. All it needs is 2 machined plates that are about 3/8 in thick. In fact, I did this process today in my garage with a FP motor. The only thing you have to do is have the gear already cut with the pressable hole, which is
.1192 in for the FP motor (standard drill bit size). Then all you do is tap it on (more like smack it on) with a hammer, using the same machined plates. The only difference is that I didn't put a gear onto this motor, I put on it a block of aluminum. (What?! Just some innocent fun.) All done in about 5 minutes. All you need: new motor, already modified gear, hammer, special plates. If you want, I can post the inventor files of these plates.
In fact, I will, but once I find them.
