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Originally Posted by R.C.
Normally if your going to all the trouble of making a custom drivetrain, you'll be making your own gearboxes as well. The only place that currently sells gearboxes integrated for a WCD is Team 221 Robotics.
But 973 Back in 08 used a [super] shifter in a WCD setup...
-RC
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48/3193 competed in the 2011 season with our first-ever WCD-style drivetrain, using modified Super Shifters (milled the transmission plates down for ground clearance, drilled mounting holes for the angle brackets that attach gearboxes to the frame). The drivetrain has proven very reliable and resilient (and will therefore now explode at IRI, since I said that). See attachments, and also
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36507.
The white delrin cam tensioners in the attached pics proved bulletproof - I don't believe they came loose once. There is also a thin strip of white delrin sheet velcroed to the belly pan underneath each chain that adds additional tension.