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Re: pic: 7068/7075 Aluminum Gears

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Originally Posted by s_forbes View Post
I was very jealous of your gearboxes in St. Louis, and I'm very excited to hear that some of your gears will be available to purchase!

The first obvious questions: What sizes/arrangements of gears will you be offering? From the hex bores in some of the ones pictured, I'm guessing most will be drop in replacements for some of the standard AM ones. Pinions? Pricing?
Most of them will be drop in Replacements, Currently we are planning to have toughbox and the first two stages of supershifter gear replacements and then some other ratios that I think many teams will be pleased with.

I'll put more details up the pricing/site/pinions in the following weeks.

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
I'll go ahead and answer for RC and say that he will be a legal FIRST vendor. I'm pretty excited at how easy it is about to become to get quality aluminum gears. This will be a substantial weight savings for any teams that are willing to try something new.
Sean is correct.

We are experimenting with a few different coatings. There will be more information in the following weeks. 1323 was also pretty happy with the gears and loved the weight savings.

-RC
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