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Re: Worst Deals in FIRST Choice

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
Ideally I'd just buy a longer shaft.
Generally shaft couplers are not used to make the shaft longer, but to facilitate assembly and disassembly.

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
You can make a straight coupler, but it'd be a lot of work to get a helical beam coupler made in shop.
...but quite cool if you had that capability.

Things seem reasonably 'priced' this year, more so than before. I find the pneumatic compo0nents to be good bargains: priced out fittings, tubing or valves lately? And an old-style PDB for an off-season or practice bot is a nice bargain.
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