The thing is we have had professionals look at the boxes (we broke down on a sponsor trip at an engineering company..so awkward). We applied as much grease as we have in years past, actually more than usual. My theory is just it had so much strain on it that is caused a misalignment in one of the gears. The mentor who is an expert on drive systems simply explained that "these gearboxes are only meant to last through competitions, we have used [our robot] more than any other. "
The pictures are here:
http://imgur.com/A4mus,yHWxC,7Fs1Z,o...FlA T,RYjzn#1
Not all the pictures of parts have problems, I just decided it would be better to take pics of everything.
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So your gearbox failed, and your first course of action was to post about it CD?
This is an interesting failure recovery plan. :) - JVN [more] 
11-08-2012, 21:16
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