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Re: KOP Gearboxes and noises
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Originally Posted by Evil Robotics
Team 1245 has noticed that if you squeeze the two motor toward each other a bad noise will go away. This was noticed on more than one gearbox. Ous solution was to use a large worm drive hose band clamp.

Has anyone noticed the same thing? Yes we did see the note on the set screw height.
This is actually recommended by IFI, though they never suggested that you would need to use a hose clamp. By moving the gears together, you're changing (lessening?) the amount of backlash between drive gears in the box, which evidently needs to be adjusted in each individual gearbox.
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