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Re: The Age before AndyMark

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Originally Posted by Rich Kressly View Post
So...
trying to put the history in the right order I dug back in my memory, dug to some old threads, read some stuff in this thread, and talked to some of the principles:

2002-2004 there was a gearbox in the kit - a questionable helical one not too many folks used...
"Questionable" is being nice. We used these in 2003 and it blew up every other match. Luckily we were able to get all the spares we wanted at events because most of the other teams weren't using them. It was a major accomplishment when our robot managed to get to the top of the ramp...