Thread: Need help creating a winch and pulley system to pull a component up the robot
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Re: Need help creating a winch and pulley system to pull a component up the robot
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Originally Posted by Quazar View Post
We used a wench last year - it was formed by putting two aluminum VersaHubs face-to-face. We drove it using a VersaPlanetary gearbox driven by a BAG motor. It worked very well for us.



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- Dean
We did pretty much the same thing, excecpt we used the old AM hubs and we added a piece of polycarb to extend the diameter of the winch. We drove ours using a ballshifter with a beefed up cylinder.