Shaft specs for CIM motors

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Originally Posted by philso

Did you install a shooter wheel directly on the motor shaft? Did you happen to have some of these motors fail?

Our prototype has had no failures, but the final design is not the same. We'll keep CD posted.

Do you know how much radial load you had on your mini-CIM shaft? 20-30 shots seems like a really quick failure. Did you also have much axial load?

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Thanks for sending an email to us at AndyMark about this also. We never really looked at this, as we have not had issues with side loading the CIM motor (and hence, one of the reasons we all love the CIM Motor).

Here is my answer to Gerry in my previous email. I figured that the rest of you folks may like this:
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Sincerely,
Andy Baker
AndyMark, Inc.

I was going to post your reply here, but you beat me to it, Andy. Anyway, this gives me a chance to thank you publicly for the great customer support you are providing. Just one more example of how the FIRST community is awesome.