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Re: Help with window motor

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I'd personally worry about epoxy standing up for an entire robot season, but that's just me. Welding would be better, but I think that could be skirting rather close to the no modification ruling. One of the Q&A ruled against modifying the output gear of machining it, so welding seems iffy to me.

Really? I though the gearboxes were always considered fair game . . . ?

Hmm, we are using ours in a very light application, so i think epoxy will be OK for us.

Was the warning about breaking the gearbox or about the legality of it? I thought the rules said the gearboxes were fair game?
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