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Re: What's Breaking?
Posted by Thomas A. Frank, Engineer on team #121, The Islanders/Rhode Warrior, from Middletown (RI) High School and Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

Posted on 3/19/99 10:42 AM MST


In Reply to: What's Breaking? posted by Dodd Stacy on 3/12/99 7:49 AM MST:



: What are people finding to be breakage-prone

Hello All;

We've found that the Fisher-Price gearboxes are somewhat prone to failure. The output gear loses
teeth after a while, and once it loses one, it self destructs in about the proverbial 5 seconds.

Oddly enough it has occured only on one side of the machine. Since the machine is symetric, this is
weird, and we haven't yet decided what the cause is. In the meantime, we've obtained some spares (looking
for more), and we've determined that a failure in a match doesn't really handicap us, so we're not too
worried about it. It's just strange.

I guess that's what happens when you use something at roughly twice it's design load!

TAF


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