We lost our pins in one gearbox during our 5th match at UTC today. But, actually, we used the new hardened plates during the BAE NH regional, too. So, a total of around 15 matches to fail. The other 3 haven't gone yet, I brought our new carrier plates to the Machine Shop at UTC today to get welded. There is no welding equipment there, but the guys there offered to bring them back to their shop and give them to us first thing tomorrow morning. So, it looks like pulling all 4 gearboxes in the morning, and hopefully we'll be ready for our first match.
The old carrier plates failed totally after running them for a few hours before we shipped.
Does anyone know if new gearboxes shipped after a certain date have both hardened steel plates, and the correct pins?
