[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

I'd betcha that that's the standard version of the DS gearbox. There's a "WCD" version with room inside for your sprockets or pulleys or whatever. It also includes a wheel truck.

We did a mod similar to what you described in #1 for the offseason, in order to turn a standard DS into a WCDish DS with space for only one more output sprocket. It was fairly simple to do, but requires a lathe. Of course, if what you really want is the WCD DS, then you should buy the WCD DS.

I bet you're right. I didn't look at the WCD version because we would not be using the WCD bearing blocks - only the Versablocks. I'll have to check out the WCD version CAD and see if that is in fact true. Solution #1 would be easy enough for us to do as well (we created custom gearboxes last year), just noting that it may not be a complete off the shelf solution if you don't know exactly what you're getting.

For the Vex people that may see this, you may want to make that more clear regardless of what will be in the user manuals (whenever those come out). I have a feeling I'm not the only one that would make this mistake...but I'm glad I did before I ordered anything!