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Re: Practice Chassis

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Originally Posted by RonnieS View Post
Send me a PM, hopefully you are close enough in the mitten to stop by and check out some options before you by anything. I would lean heavy towards versa chassis with some versa blocks to start (WestCoast Drive) and then later you can purchase some clamping gearboxes from vex and start your experiments with another bread of drive trains. The 1x2 versa tubing on the drive makes it super easy to add other components.
-Ronnie
I second this. Basically everything you buy will be reusable, except possibly the frame itself. We have ran some derivation of a versachassis for the past two years due to how customizable it is and how quickly it comes together.
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