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Re: VEXPro 2014: After The Season

Versadog:

The metal bosses of the versakey pattern were REALLY tight in the vexpro gears. Almost unusably so, especially since we only used the versadog as a lathe jig, to allow us to bore out gears without using a 4 jaw chuck, and needed to remove the gear afterwords.

Solenoids/Solenoid manifolds

Extremely useful. Glad that these are available from a mainstream FRC supplier.

Dog Shifters

High quality stuff, but there needs to be a better way to purchase individual components of the dog shift system. There was no way for us to buy the shifting pins used without shelling out $75 for a PTO addon kit at minimum.

Versaplanetary dual stage input

It was not made clear on the website that this part did not provide support to the AM 9015 motors, as the normal versaplanetary does. Additionally, the two screws that hold the dual stage input together did not seem adequate, as the case warped and split open to some degree. Additional screws in the corners would have given it much more rigidity.

Belt pulleys

High quality stuff. 2x wide pulleys for 15mm belts would be appreciated, but what was made avaliable this year was very good.
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