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Re: Engaging Gears Perpendicular to Shaft Direction?

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Originally Posted by Stu Bloom
1. Stripping the gear teeth could be a huge problem.
I agree with that one. While we did not use a shifting mechanism last year (we had some cool ideas, but just ran out of time), we have successfully stripped a set of bevel gears during the Canadian Regional so badly, you could barely tell these were gears once There was too much torque on the shafts, and we did not support them well enough. This could definitely be a problem with the mechanism you are describing. Remember, no amount of testing you do will prepare you for the actual competition, since no one can force themselves to put a robot they built with their own hands through some of the stuff that happens to it during the actual competition