pic: Input Stage Wear

[Sohaib]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

This is not the first time I've seen this this year. I have helped many teams this year who were having "mysterious" wear on their CIM output gears and the driven gear from the CIM motors. It is definitely from the CIM motor mounting on the Gearboxes. For these gearboxes the mounting holes are slotted so teams can use different sized gears on the CIM motors. The motors are forced away from the gears and the gears destroy themselves.

I Hope WCP changes the design so this doesn't happen anymore.

The best way to change this would be to make different sets of holes for the different gear sizes. I haven't looked at the design but hopefully the design allows for these other holes.

Can confirm had the same issue on our gearbox and showed Aaron.

This issue really plagued us during games. On the flip side, blowing apart a gearbox and reassembling it at a competition is a really good team bonding opportunity, we had the luxury of doing it three times.