Anyone lost thier BaneBots Carrier pins?

[jskene]

I'm not sure that I understood your comment. Did you mean to say that the welded in pins also came out?

[Ben Piecuch]

We decided to follow Team 237's advice and spot welded the back of the pins to the carrier plate. The welds stuck up a little (maybe a 1/16th of an inch) but it cleared the outer housing, so no grinding was required. When we went to re-assemble the plates, we found that at least one of the pins on each of the carrier had lost its perpendicularity, and kept jamming up the stage. So, we ended up running both gearboxes with only 4 of the 5 planet gears in them.

We ran 10 matches, 4 practice rounds, and about a hour of practice on the practice field -> No Failure! We haven't taken them apart to confirm their health, but I'm fairly confident that they held together without losing any pins. We'll be double-checking for our post-season comps.

Best of luck,

BEN

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by jskene

I'm not sure that I understood your comment. Did you mean to say that the welded in pins also came out?

I'm sorry. I just re-read my post and realized that it was confusing. Let me re-word that.

We lost all of the pins in one box during matches on friday. That night, I had the other spare set of plates that we had welded and ground down so that they were ready for installation on Saturday morning. On Saturday morning when I opened the gearboxes, the one box had all the pins missing, another had one missing, and a third had 4/5 missing. The fourth was intact . After replacing the carrier plates with the new welded ones, we have had no problems.

Beware teams.... Beware!

Jacob