White Paper Discuss: Team 179 conceptual - single speed - 3 motor gearbox

[Swampdude]

Good so the stock carbon steel 24 pitch gears work :-)
I think I'm going to switch the bearings to the Sintered Bronze, Oilite flange bearings on Small parts - those things are $1.50 ea.
also going to look into the #609 loctite for gear bonding vs. welds
Now we're talking!

[MattB703]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

Good so the stock carbon steel 24 pitch gears work :-)
I think I'm going to switch the bearings to the Sintered Bronze, Oilite flange bearings on Small parts - those things are $1.50 ea.
also going to look into the #609 loctite for gear bonding vs. welds
Now we're talking!

I strongly recomend staying with roller bearings. I have seen may teams learn this lesson.

The way I look at it, we are all limited by the amount of energy we can put into our motors. A design that has less parasitic losses will put more of that energy to the ground.

Matt"s
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