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Unread 27-12-2008, 11:50
Seth Mallory Seth Mallory is offline
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Re: Diffrent Transmission Advantages

For years the students on 192 have designed and built their gear boxes. Some times one speed and some times two speed. Both types have their advantages and disadvantages. Most years the gear boxes are bullet proof and some years not. The lessons that they learn in the designing and building them are far reaching. They learn even more life lessons the years things go wrong and they struggle to correct in very limited time. Also with 40 or so team members they need the jobs it provides to help keep people busy. The last point is that it is the students robot and if they wanted to buy gear boxes they would but it is a matter of pride to design and build their own. We do for the students growth and not the robot.