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Originally Posted by roystur44
Damp,
If you wanted to make a nice compact 3 CIM ABS/Delrin gearbox housing with a PTO port. Think about repackaging the VexPro Ball shifter design.
I would be willing to lend you a hand and get you some Engineering and CNC machining time. I wanted to make a video for our team to show how a Solidworks design is imported to Gibbs Cam and how the geometry is used to create the tool paths and G code and how the part would be made on the CNC mill.
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Roy,
Thanks for the offer. We might take you up on that. I was already considering doing a 6 CIM gearbox like that, with the VP shift shaft and delrin plates.
Thanks to everyone else for the ideas and comments. (Now I won't kill myself with toxic fumes.) While TechShop does have other much more appropriate machines for cutting gearbox plates, they currently aren't available to me. As a minor, I can't use most CNC tools, except for the laser cutter, and I was hoping not to have to have a mentor present to work on our summer project. Even if the machine doesn't work out for gearboxes, we can still use it for electronics boards, sprockets, pulleys, etc , as others have suggested.