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Re: pic: Ungreased toughboxes!!!!

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Originally Posted by SlimBoJones View Post
Jason,

We've been really "lucky" this year to have had a lot of time to drive on the playing surface so far during build season.

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I guess take this as a public service announcement:

Grease your ToughBoxes!
Be nice to your Jaguars!


If there's any advice I'd give from Team 188 to other teams, it would be that.

Even though we expected the low-friction environment would be "easier" on our drive components, we've quickly found out that this may be the most taxing year we've ever witnessed on a drivetrain in FRC.
Well, we hope to follow your lead, even though we have yet to officially drive our full robot. Our robot has been built entirely in detachable modules that bolt on and off the frame. Two drive modules, a control module, and a ball handling module. The goal was to get it so that two drive modules and the control module would come in under 40 pounds. Right now we're at 46 pounds.

If we can shave six pounds off of there (shouldn't be hard... we'll just ship the CIMs and toughbox gears, and replace them with spares off last year's machine for practicing) then we should be able to get some similarly crazy practice driving time in, too, as we have five or so weeks between ship date and Seattle.

I really hope that if we blow any components that it will be in practice... competition is sufficiently intense when everything is working well!

Good luck, and thanks for highlighting the grease issue.

Jason
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