Thread: Which gear pitch to use
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Unread 30-10-2005, 22:02
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Re: Which gear pitch to use
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Originally Posted by team222badbrad
By the way, does anyone have any stories of broken gears? If so please post what type of gears you used and why they broke!
2002, first time ever attempting a 4 motor drive. We used 3/16" face width 32P brass spur gears (yeah, oops). Geared the CIM and cluster gear to match the drill motor and gearbox. Very fast and very powerful. Worked great until we tried pulling two goals at once in a practice competition just a couple days before ship. Sheared off a few teeth and with that was the end of the four motor drive for 2002. Anyway, I guess you could say we've learned a thing or two about gearboxes since then.
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