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[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

Could you go more in detail about the failures?

Sure

In 2014 we had trouble from the start to tighten the motors on the gearbox you had to use a short right angle allen key. None of ours were short enough so we cut one. It was still very time consuming so we drilled holes on the other size of the channel. Then after working fine for tests one box suddenly seized up. After a lot of trial and error we found loosening the motors worked. At our first regional another one seized up mid match. We originally thought it was an electrical issue but, it ended up being because a motor was too loose. Overall missed a lot of time.

In 2015 we had minimal issues after installation but installing them on the kit chassis was not as easy as bolting some stuff on. We actually had to drill all new mounting holes by hand.

All of these issues could have been human error but, we did talk to Andy about it in 2014 (3940 were our pit neighbors) he seemed to think it was some tolerance issues and said he would look into it. That may be why our 2015 boxes worked alright.

Overall we wont use them again but that was just our experience. Gear boxes in closed channel just doesn't sit right with me.

We have had nothing but success with Versaplanetaries and toughbox minis and will just use those for now on.