Reducing the weight of the KitBot

[Rosiebotboss]

Originally Posted by Matt Adams

I must whole heartedly agree.

If you're going to be using a single speed drive train, you need to strongly justify NOT using these. Every team only has so many person-hours and engineering talent at their disposal.

FIRST isn't all about making everything from scratch. In the real world, very little usually is.

On a side note.. something to think about. I've seen a few people suggest lightening the gear cases via drilling holes or something of that nature. I haven't given it a ton of thought, but initially, the case itself is very light. Having a mostly sealed gearbox seems like a good idea to me.

I've never heard someone say, "I'm really glad I had this gear box wide open. The dirt and metal chips really improved our performance."

I've definitely heard the opposite, "Why didn't we just cover this gear box with a sheet of .010" polycarbonate to keep all the junk out?

You might want to consider drilling a couple of 3/8" holes above the gears you use to spray a little lubricant, but outside of that... you really can't beat it.

My $.02,

MJA

We are leaning in the direction of using the provided gear boxes as well. The thought we had was to cut a window for inpection and lube, replacing the cut away with polycarbonate keeping out dirt and tetras.