Using gold motors

[blazerbotics]

mine are just mounted on 6mm polycarb. You shouldnt need to adjust gears providing they are mounted correctly.

[mark_m]

Ive just finished a gearbox for use with my current project. It uses a 12v gold motor with heavy duty mod 0.8 gears.
It appears to be working quite well, but its a bit noisy. Despite the gearbox plates being waterjet cut the gears still arent perfectly well aligned (within 0.1mm though).
What lubrication should I be using? There will be electronic circuit boards mounted close to the gearbox so I dont want oil flying everywhere.
Ive not allowed the gears time to run-in yet so Im hoping theyll get quieter after a bit of use.

cheers
Mark
(see profile pic for photo of project)

nice job, most people dont bother with oil, mainly due to it picking up dust etc (seeing as robots run on wooden floors, there alot of it!). Gears are always abit noisy when ran dry, they should be ok. Ive never had any probs.

[leorcc]

Or a feather disk weapon photographed from the bottom/top.

[mark_m]

Youre all wrong, but Christians closest! Im attempting to build a robotic unicycle that self balances.

Mark, if you want to have a clean lubrificated gearbox, you will have to enclose it.
Depending on RPM, but I would use classic gear grease.
The next best thing is to use a classic pencil,and color the teeth.On other word, a thin coating of pure graphite. Dont overdo it, otherwise the graphite dust can cause trouble on the PCBs.

0.1 of a mil out, that wont make any diffrence lol. but if you want a super job you would want an enclosed gearbox. keeps all the dirt and grit out. we use a thick grease in venom and ploughbot. they work perfik

[aliboy]

What do people think about running the 24v gold motors at 36v ?

36v of bats is heavy, Id guess the motor would get very hot, I think its completely enclosed