Banebot gearboxes unavailable?

[dtengineering]

FRC build season must be like Christmas time for robot retailers. You know you are going to be crazy busy for a month or so, but you never know exactly what is going to be selling or in what quantities. You stock, conservatively, what you are pretty sure will move, but can't go crazy because otherwise you'll have to blow it out at "boxing day" prices. Then you work your butt off trying to meet demand when one of your products, in particular, becomes popular!

I've been in this situation before... I believe one year I was able to find the last 36:1 gearbox in North America... Banebots was sold out, but Trossen Robotics had two left. The courier shipment cost more than the gearboxes did, but they were here in less than 48 hours.

In any case, I tip my hat to the folks at Banebots, I've been buying from them for years and they have always done absolutely EVERYTHING they can to get the motors and gearboxes out to teams as quickly as possible.

But that doesn't always help when you have to wait....

Jason