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45Auto,
Excellent, thanks!!

EricH,
Pretty good memory there my friend.:)

Now all I need to do is find out if our local supplier carries it or if I need to order it from McMaster. At $35 bucks a foot, I hope I can find it locally for less.:o

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For our conveyor we moded the gearbox by removing the final reduction and making a new output shaft in the second stage reduction. I THINK I have a picture somewhere...I shall find it...
We used this in order to run this. Its really easy to do if you have the shaft extension at hand.

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I know a good gearbox series for the fisher prices are the bane bot transmissions.

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Yeah, we used the FPs with the banebots gearboxes this season for our acquirer and conveyor. to do this you will need to remove the pinion that the FP comes with and press on one of the banebots ones, and then cut down the shaft. This is definitely worth it however, because the banebots gearboxes are far easier to mount than the FP gearbox in the KOP, and come in a wide variety of reductions.

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That's what we had to run our spiral originally almost identically. We had our brushes attached to the 1x1 though.

We upgraded to a AM toughbox in a custom housing with a Fischer in an AM planetery to speed it up though because it was too slow.

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I'm pretty sure it is a 1.5" octagon, not a hex...