Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/22/2001 8:19 PM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
In Reply to: Re: Joe's post
Posted by Justin Stiltner on 1/22/2001 1:24 PM EST:
We have pressed a sprocket over the gear for 2 years.
I love it. It is a little tricky to get the right ID
so that the press is tight but not so tight that it
cracks the sprocket. But other than that, I have
nothing but good things to say about this method.
Joe J.
P.S. EXCEPT one more thing, it is a custom motor
treatment that makes it hard to replace your motor at a
competition. We get around this by buying an extra
motor from a GM dealer (this year's motor is from a
"G-van" a.k.a. "Savannah"

. A halfway solution would
be to make extra sprokets and have one ready to press
on to a new motor if your old one fails.
Joe J.