Thread: pic: 3 CIM WCD Ball Shifter Second Edition
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Re: pic: 3 CIM WCD Ball Shifter Second Edition
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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
It looks like you added in an extra gear, bearing, and shaft in order to make this viable. Do you think there's a way to keep the two-shaft design like this? I can't really think of one.
With that i mind, I think I prefer your last gearbox a bit more.
EDIT: Yeah, not a lot you can do without switching to belt combination it looks like.
I was a little worried about this. I planned on this being a trade off between height and weight. Surprisingly, because the gears are smaller, and the plates are more compact, this version only weighs 0.05lbs more than the previous.
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