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Originally Posted by Isidore
I vaguely remember that Segway went away from their original gearbox manufacturer for cost reasons.Certainly the i2 gearboxes were noisier than the the gen 1 boxes and the I180 I had was much noisier than the early gen 1s. Unless there is something wrong with your boxes, bad bearing or something like that, you are just a victim of this process. The earliest boxes were the quietest.
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I had thought the original gear box company went out of business, and that is why they brought the assembly process in house.
As to the result, I agree with all the above.
I always wondered if that original company made the gears and assembled them, or if they just assembled them. I believe segway buys the gears and shafts, and assembles them.
Perhaps the noise is a result segway buying different gears and not so much the location where the gear boxes are assembled.