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Re: Ball Shifter Vs. Dog Shifter?

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Originally Posted by Travis Schuh View Post
What do the gears that the balls were interfacing to look like? Is there similar wear on those from the balls engaging suddenly? We have been asking ourselves recently why we don't run ball shifters, so we are very interested to see your experience. We also get noticeable wear on our dog shifters, sounds like either isn't a slam dunk.
No wear on either (for lack of a better term) the steel ball containment shell, or the gears. This thread has some good videos of what not to do with respect to the VexPro ones. While ours was not as obviously incorrectly assembled as is shown in those videos I suspect the travel was adjusted slightly incorrectly resulting in the accelerated wear pictured.
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