Drill life expectancy

[Noah]

I have found the motors themselves surprisingly resilient. The motors from last year run today, despite an absurd amount of rust for a machine that was stored inside our autoshop under a cover, being abused during preseason, competition, and post-season fundraisers, and simply thrown around in general. I cannot say the same for the transmissions... I long ago lost count of the number of transmissions that crapped out despite any measures we took to hold them. (The reinforcements for the mounting seemed to grow steadily throughout the build, we tried running at reduced power for a while, we built mounts to hold the system together in directions where there was no feasable way for force to be applied...) Well, our team now has a robot with one working motor transmission, and no spares, and nobody feels like expending the effort to repair that stupid transmission, if such a thing is feasable.