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Originally Posted by Justin Montois
Thanks everyone for the input. It seems that the general consensus is that custom transmissions can help great teams dial in their designs more efficiently, but for the most part it's not giving them a significant advantage.
Now, most of the comments on here seem to be based around transmissions for drive bases. Does everyone have they same outlook for custom transmissions for arms, conveyors, elevators ETC? Still not worth it?
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A team need not be super elite to build custom side plates for a gearbox that uses AndyMark parts. Our team will consider it next year now that we've learned how to do it over the offseason. If we do go with that type of custom box, the goal will be to trade a small amount of time for some weight savings and some of the little niceties that come along with putting things where we want them instead of where they are on the one size fits all model.