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Re: Incorporating the vex ball shifter into a WCD Drive

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
The CAD is very clear here. The plate is flush, the bolts go through the tube, through the plate, into the tapped standoff.

We remove the bearing block faceplate, remove the two 1/4-20 buttonhead, and the gearbox is removed. Identical in function to our current designs. We consider the bearing block an integral part of the gearbox.

None of this is untested, all we did was make the ballshifter the same black box more or less as our current designs.
What are the gears that you are using in the third stage, standard IFI ones? One of the possible issue's I noticed with IFI's third stage is that it sits below the bottom of the plastic housing from the previous two stages, causing an issue if you want to mount the housing to the bottom of a robot with very little clearance. I was thinking about changing up the gear ratio and was wondering if that is what you did.
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