pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

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I have a guess. I think that one shaft will be used to wind up something that will tension your kicking mechanism and then another shaft (which will spin about 1/5th the other shafts speed) will be used to activate the mechanism that will trigger the kicker. This way you get 5 spins of the tensioning shaft before having to kick. Just 1 guess though.

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

I didn't actually mean to create a thread for this picture, the system must've done something weird. But whatever, people can talk about it if they want to. Any guesses as to what it's for? :rolleyes:

Edit: Looks like someone got to it first.

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

When i replied to the picture from the gallery it automatically created a thread for discussion.

When you say somebody got to it first do you mean that my guess was correct?

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

Oh, so that's what happened. It's odd because at first your response didn't show up and....well whatever. Anyways, I didn't mean you were right, sorry. It was a good guess though. The gearbox does have something to do with our kicker. :rolleyes:

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

one shaft to kick, one to climb the tower, and the 3rd is to switch them?

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

Pretty close. The third one actually isn't used for anything, but yes, the first one is for the kicker and the other one runs a winch. We've got an...interesting way to do this without running both at the same time. :rolleyes:

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One way bearings?

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

You got us! I'll post a whole picture of the system sometime next week. It works surprisingly well.

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

Where did you get the 1-way bearings? Are you using the ones off of bike freewheels, or did you get them from some special source?

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

We got them from a specific manufacturer and pressure fit them into sprockets. I'll find out where we got them tomorrow and post it here.

Re: pic: Team 540 teaser #1c: Monster gearbox, clothed
 

So ones for the kicker and the others for the Winch... so is the third just for support?