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Originally posted by DaBruteForceGuy
I say this, not because it doesn't take weight off, but that the amount that you would have to drill to make a sufficient dent is impractical.
I agree completely..... for Aluminum. but for steel you can literally remove over a lb from each individual spur gear and still maintain its integrity. (More on bigger gears less on smaller) In a large gearbox, such as the technocats 3 motor air-shifter The amount of weight savings from the gears will be much higher than the savings from bearings to delrin bushings. I also like having nice flanged bearings when the meshing of gears is involved and important.

The gear in my post above starts life at right about 2lbs (1.93) after the mod is 0.4lbs. We used 4 of these last year that is over 6 lbs. savings on just those 4 gears alone, we did not have 6 lbs of bearings on the whole bot. Try saving 6 lbs of aluminum and you are talking many, many, many holes.
 


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