Thread: Shooter off of Live Shaft
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Re: Shooter off of Live Shaft
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Originally Posted by geomapguy View Post
We were looking back to some of this year's designs for shooters and we noticed that some teams drove their wheels through a shaft.

Our team was wondering how exactly you drive a wheel off a shaft via a CIM-ulator with an 8mm keyed output shaft similar to that on a CIM motor.
We did something similar and used a 8mm to 8mm shaft coupler that we got off McMaster to drive another shaft which the wheel was on.

Later we custom made a gearbox that had an extra long 3/8 keyed shaft that was used with an AM hub.
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