Allowable motors early info

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Dale

A lot of the Banebots issue is they way they build every transmission to order. I'm wondering if they could instead give teams the option of buying the stages and housing in kit form so we could assemble them ourselves. Usually Banebots shipped in a day or two anything they didn't have to assemble.

You can do this now by ordering all the parts seperately but that's pretty tedious.

This. When we ordered replacement/upgrade parts for our P60s, we always got them with a good leadtime. This in the midst of the 1 month P60 backlog.

I'm convinced that BB's problem isn't inventory or part supply, but assembly time. They've so far insisted on shipping their gearboxes "pre-assembled" with no grease. So you have to disassemble them anyways to grease them. Meanwhile, they have to have people spend something like 15 min or more per gearbox assembling it, leading to ridiculous leadtimes when they get hit with orders for thousands of gearboxes.

If they simply offered an unassembled kit form of the P60s, everyone would be happier. They'd save time and labor costs. We'd get gearboxes faster. And there wouldn't be this pointless wasted time of assembling gearboxes that will just need to be disassembled again. They could even make things easier for themselves by packaging things in complete planetary stages. A bag for a 5:1 to 5:1 stage, a bag for a 5:1 to 4:1 stage, and a bag for a 4:1 to 4:1 stage, and bags for the 5:1 and 4:1 output stages. Shipping an order would be a simple as grabbing the appropriate stages and tossing them into a box with the correct ring gear, mounting block, and output shaft. And then you fire it off to another satisfied customer. The only real obstacle to this is writing some assembly instructions so people know what order the stages go in.