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Re: Recommendations for purchases

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Originally Posted by Boe View Post
If you have the resources ($$$$) I would recomend buying a nice 3D printer. Our partner teams printer was very useful throughout the season especially for sprocket spacers and a fan duct for a shooter gearbox.

http://robotics.mnmsa.org/media/photos/

picture 71 shows the shooter gearbox fan duct, and prettymuch any pictures with the wheels wll show the sprocket spacers (all 20 of them ) The sprocket spacers had to be a precise height so it lined up perfectly with our shifter's sprockets. We wouldn't have been able to get this result without the printer
Your mill could have easily matched that precision.
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