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Originally Posted by Jonathanb
Now we couldn't wait that long so my Mom called PIC every day after the order and spoke to the productions supervisor, and he finally got tired of it so he said that we'd get them by the 5th of February and WE DID!!! GO MOM!!
Parents always seem to save the day,  |
Can we borrow your Mom?
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
And I don't know much about gears, but why is this particular one so rare as to only seem to be made by one company?? Or, is that just an ignorant assumption on my part??
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As far as I know, PIC Designs seem to be the only U.S. vendor for off-the-shelf 0.7 module metric gears. I presume that the demand for them is so low that it is just not worth it for other vendors to keep them around taking up space.
What I will do is recommend to FIRST and to PIC Designs that, if we have the Bosch motors in the kits again next year, PIC be notified in advance so they can build up some stock and have them ready to ship out in less than four weeks. Alternatively, if teams indicate that they want to build on this design (or any reasonably close variant) again next year, I can work with my team to buy up a stock of them in the fall to distribute to any teams that want to use the design.
But for any of that to be worth the effort, I want to ask one thing in return from anyone that is using the Team 116 gearbox design this year: we want to hear back from you! Please provide any feedback, constuctive criticism, comments, etc. that you may have. We set out to develop a gearbox design so that teams without full-blown machining capabilities could have a dual-motor, dual-speed shifting solution if they wanted one. We know that some teams used the design last year, and from this (and similar) threads, it seems that more are using it this year. That's great! That's why we published it. But we would really like to hear back about how well it worked for you (particularly once the competition season starts), and your comments.
Intentionally, we left a lot of room for improvement! The thing we really want to see is the team that takes this design, comes up with the next generation version, and publishes it back into the FIRST community. In other words, use this as a starting point, improve it, and let everyone know!
-dave