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Re: Dewalt gearboxes?

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Many, many teams have used Dewalts in drive train applications for years with little or no issue. They are more than robust enough.

I know that they are robust enough with the metal dewalt housing, we built a custom housing to mount our fisher price this year, and had only the white plastic gearbox itself. I would not recommend this for anything that will be exposed to shock loads.