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Originally Posted by TheFrozenSlink

Our team was planning on possibly making a slingshot style launcher, where a motorized winch pulls back and arms our cannons and then we would shift into a neutral gear to disengage the winch and, and the ball would be fired, similar to 1114 in 2008 (Im sure you've seen a lot of them in the past 5 days).
I was wondering how difficult it would be to convert the 3 Cim BallShifters our team ordered so it would have a neutral gear, or if there is a better way to accomplish the same task, that wouldn't require taking apart our gearboxes?

It should be as simple as removing one of the output gears on the shifting stage and repacking it with a spacer. This way it has no gear to engage when shifted in one position (neutral).