[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

While looking for some gearboxes for Robotic Amusements on ebay, I came accross the company BaneBots.

On behalf of Team 1519, I'd like to thank Joe, Richard, and all of the other contributors to this thread.

Our team ended up using three BaneBots gearboxes on our 2006 Robot. Without these gearboxes, we wouldn't have been able to come up with a workable design for our shooter turret. We used a 5:1 BaneBots gearbox on each of two FisherPrice motors in order to drive the shooter wheels. We also used a 25:1 BaneBots gearbox on the Mabuchi motor in order to drive our shooter's "feed roller." The use of these gearboxes enabled us to come up with a relatively small, lightweight turret which was able to track the light effectively.

Our experience with the BaneBots gearboxes was very positive. Our only major problem was that we needed to machine the pinion gears that came with the gearboxes in order to increase the ID sufficiently to get the gears onto the shafts of the Fisher Price and Mabuchi motors. It took us quite a few broken pinion gears to get it right before we got one to work! However, once we learned that piece of knowledge, the BaneBots gearboxes served us very well.

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread -- without this awesome information sharing, we would have had a much more difficult time building a competitive robot in 2006.