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Re: Incorporating the vex ball shifter into a WCD Drive

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Originally Posted by btslaser View Post
If you are able to remove the hex output shaft pressed into the ball shifter shaft and replace it with your own, you could just add some pulleys/sprockets and a couple standoffs like the attached picture. The picture shown has 30 tooth pulleys and the clearance with the 4 standoffs is close... to get more clearance with smaller pulleys/sprockets you could rotate the entire gearbox slightly about the output shaft and use the 2 standoffs in the upper left/lower right corners (2nd picture). Would be good to work in some more support for the cantilevered gearbox.

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If I remember correctly, the output speed of the ball shifters without the third stage is a bit too fast to direct drive.
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