CIM Pinion issues in Toughbox

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by squirrel

The key and clip were installed just as shown in the picture in the Toughbox User's Guide, shown here.

Well... looking at that picture, then, and hearing another report of this having happened, this may well be a design issue that AndyMark may wish to address in future toughbox/gearbox designs. Like you say, it is easy to fix... when you have the motors out.

Fortunately the biggest design advantage of the toughbox over previous KOP gearboxes is how easily the motors come out. In most cases teams can pull their motor without pulling the gearbox.

We'll keep our eyes open for this... we may even be able to check it out through the lexan panel.

Jason

[XXShadowXX]

We had the same problem, with the keyways being to small to work and that they would fall out. Infact we had the same thing happening during our testing, thus, we need to open up the toughbox and rebuild the gear box, which promply fell on the floor and was covered with hair and metal shavings....
Also the CIM came lose and needed to be reattached.

[XXShadowXX]

Well guess what, the bot did break down when we tested it and i need to rebuild it, and your keyway trick worked thnxs.