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Originally Posted by Cory
It wasn't worth it though and I'm pretty sure the solid delrin plate was just about as heavy as a pocketed aluminum plate...and substantially less rigid.
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On top of that, I recall having issues with being unable to draw heat out of the CIM motors since we used delrin plate.
We did a test with the same gearbox under the same load using pocketed aluminum plate. It resulted in having a cooler motor over the same testing duration.
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