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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
Wouldn't it be exactly the same? Two plates, a tube, some standoffs? You just unscrew the gearbox and lift it up to remove it.
Ah, crud, you're right; removal is actually easier with that design. No idea what I was thinking there.

However, currently the lower half of my shifter is exactly the assembly from the WCP 3-CIM dog shifter; designing it to sit on top of the tube would probably entail changing that, and being a lazy engineer, I want to do as little designing as I can get away with

Moreover, my wheels fit pretty tight right now, so doing that would probably actually lose me overall space, since the tube would have to move in far enough to allow me to put a gear on the other side of the wheel.
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