Thread: Vex Versaplanetary gearbox repair
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Re: Vex Versaplanetary gearbox repair
What happened was our old lead screws had some back drive in the nuts. When we switched out the nuts, it then made the gearbox and coupler grouped together tighter and when driving the nut down it pulled up on the snap ring. We never had the issue occur until we switched the nuts. I believe we switched the snapring once and we didn't have any extra shafts with us to switch.

Tomorrow we will be repairing it and I will post before and afters and document the results. This does work as a learning experience.
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