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Re: pic: 3CIM Shifter Idea
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Originally Posted by Jared
We also found it really helpful to have our center wheel's shaft be 3/8" steel hex (we did support this slightly smaller than usual shaft on both sides of the wheel) then weld a hex sleeve onto our output shaft so our gearbox can just slide in and out of the robot. We only have to undo two bolts to pull our gearbox out.
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Now there's a good idea; I had been struggling to come up with good ways of allowing for easy removal of the center wheel in a sheet metal 6WD setup (which is ideally what we'd be using this in).
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