[HPA_Robotics_13]

My AP physics teacher (along with my school's freshman physics teacher) just explained to me that gear reduction does not do anything to change the motors torque. Thus, after the 1:180 reduction of the gearbox and then another 1:10 to get it down to 12 rps, your system still has only .324 Nm at 6V.
We decided that a system using the fisher price motors should have a worm gear to give it the torque that the motor lacks to lift a 1.5 meter 100+ newton arm.

Am I just completely ignorant to have assumed that you would be driving the arm from a direct chain link to the FP gearbox shaft or is my teacher wrong?

I must be missing something becaue many people here, such as jgannon, have explicitly stated that the torque is greater after reduction.