I don’t know if we are the only team having this problem or not. We have a wooden tip in our lift spring, which might be a contributing factor, as would the air pressure on our gear ejector.
Are we alone, or are other teams piercing their gears on the lift peg?
Is it the field spec spring or a “similar” one?
We have rammed the spokes of our gears into our peg (with an aluminum tip) pretty hard (very hard) and we have not had this problem. Our gears have lots of scratches, but nothing like this.
You might want to dial down the air pressure a bit… I don’t think it’s the wood tip.
We have been placing gears pretty hard, and broken a few polycarb tips, but haven’t broken any gears yet. Scratched and scuffed, yes. But broken, no. I think you should look at dialing down your air pressure as has been suggested.
We have messed up one of our springs but not our gears. I’m not entirely sure how it happened though.
We have rammed our robot into the gear pretty hard as well, however we do not seem to have any damage as significant as yours like a puncture!
If I saw that happen on field, I would start considering G15 violations, especially if it happened more than once. Possibly also some R07 safety violations too.
We had this happen to the gear as well! We drove into the peg (aluminum tip) and hit a spoke and it put a hole very similar to the smaller one in the picture.
