[jskene]

After getting to the finals at the Chesapeake regional (and losing to a very strong and worthy alliance), we dismantled our gearboxes to see if our long-pin / Loctite 680 fix had worked.

In a word, no.

On one side, 3 pins had worked loose, and on the other , one pin. Certainly this is much better than with the stock hardened plates with short pins, but not up to a full competition series - we only played in 14 matches, whereas one could play in 17.

We plan either to weld the long pins in place or to drill new, undersize holes in the new plates and press fit the old pins into these holes.

We won't know how our plan works out until we have run many matches in Atlanta.

Hope to see you there.