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Re: Ground Clearance Vex clamping gearbox

That still looks pretty exciting for my tastes. We CADed up a long chassis with 6" wheels and the clamping gearboxes and realized things would be awfully tight since our gearboxes are fairly centrally located. If we crossed the scoring platform square, we'd still have the gearbox gear scraping the platform for a bit. Someone suggested we just toss a hex bore wheel on the outside of the gear, but when I noted that we'd still high center badly if we strafed sideways into the corner, we switched to 8" wheels instead. That decision seems to have been trading one clearance issue for another, however...

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