07-06-2016, 18:35
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Re: What COTS parts would you like to see?
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Originally Posted by Kevin Ainsworth
I also want Vex steel gears in 3/8" and 1/2" hex bores, 30 teeth and smaller.
We like to make the smaller gear steel and the larger gear aluminum. Aluminum on aluminum tends to wear out prematurely. Especially for the practice robot that gets much higher wear than the comp bot.
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I've never had an aluminum gear "wear out". I've broken aluminum gears, I've run aluminum gearboxes for hundreds of hours on practice robots, but I've never had a gear "wear out". I'm sure you guys are properly greasing your gearboxes and taking all of the right steps for maintenance, so I'm really curious to see what your failures look like?
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