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Re: Amount of coupler purchase required on 1/2'' hex?

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
This is a bit of a tangent, but looking at your specific design, maybe you could build a gearbox that straddles your rectangular tube? Instead of driving a live shaft, have a gear off the gearbox drive another gear bolted to the wheel. I feel like this might achieve what you're trying to do (shifting gearbox with CIMs over drive wheels) a bit better than the coupler solution.
That's a cool idea, but it'd be harder to manufacture and I want to be able to swap the gearboxes easily as well as the wheels.
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