[Kevin Sevcik]

The Banebots P60 gearboxes should be perfectly fine for powering a shooter wheel. As Adam said, you start running into problems if you use them in large reductions driving high inertias with shock loads. The failure point is actually where the output shaft meets the final stage carrier plate. It's a "Double-D" shaft/hole connection that's highly prone to deforming and camming out under shock loads. A low reduction gearbox into a shooter wheel just isn't going to have this problem.

As for lead times, last year was obviously horrendous with 20 day lead times or more. BB is currently stating up to 6 day lead times on orders. I think the lead time gets bad because they have such a modular system and they build each gearbox to order.

PROTIP: If you need a P60 gearbox RIGHT NOW, order all the individual parts for it and assemble it yourself.

Last year at the height of the 25-30 day lead times, we ordered wheels and spare P60 parts from BB and they shipped in 2-3 days. So I'm pretty certain you could just order all the various parts you need and they'd ship out much much faster.