pic: FRC488 -- Fall Project

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Mk.32

So if your competition frame was bent and threw chains, how does going to an all gear setup help? If you run your gear-driven frame rough and it gets bent it sounds like it will destroy gears due to incorrect mess?

The obvious solution to both is to build a frame that doesn't bend, but after that why not just stick to chain or my personal favorite timing belt? We ran our timing belt frame pretty hard this season and never had issues with throwing belts, and in the past we never threw chains (even on the kit frame) after using tensioners/careful alignment.

At Boilermaker the back of our drive frame twisted out like you see in this picture (design failure) The gears happily kept humming along and had zero problems with the twist and worked without destroying themselves.