[techtiger1]

When you talk to Andy it seems like drive gear boxes are even hard to sell to FIRST teams as far as providing technical support for them. I have said the same thing too many times that the hard part about a swerve is controlling it. As far as AM selling them, they do just fine without them and have many great products. I don't see any reason for them to go and start selling swerve modules, when many of the teams that use them have enough machining capability already to make them. Swerve modules are custom machined parts the kind companies charge a lot of money to machine, people would be paying an arm and a leg if a company was out there selling swerve modules. Then, there is the issue of having to have x amount of them on hand without even knowing if your going to sell them if you decide to offer them. In conclusion, I am sure AM could design a swerve module but actually having a big enough market to sell them is the question. Mr.O'connor and Bob all have good point about this leading too not as many good robots also, case in point teams using the AM mechanums when they first came out.

My two cents,
Drew