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Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch
To me, it's a no-brainer. These KOP gearboxes are wonderful, and with a minimum of machining time can be kept to the same weight as our previous gearboxes.
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I must whole heartedly agree.
If you're going to be using a single speed drive train, you need to strongly justify NOT using these. Every team only has so many person-hours and engineering talent at their disposal.
FIRST isn't all about making everything from scratch. In the real world, very little usually is.
On a side note.. something to think about. I've seen a few people suggest lightening the gear cases via drilling holes or something of that nature. I haven't given it a ton of thought, but initially, the case itself is very light. Having a mostly sealed gearbox seems like a good idea to me.
I've never heard someone say, "I'm really glad I had this gear box wide open. The dirt and metal chips really improved our performance."
I've definitely heard the opposite, "Why didn't we just cover this gear box with a sheet of .010" polycarbonate to keep all the junk out?
You might want to consider drilling a couple of 3/8" holes above the gears you use to spray a little lubricant, but outside of that... you really can't beat it.
My $.02,
MJA