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Re: VEX Pro Parts Feedback, 2015

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Originally Posted by Bennett548 View Post
Lots of positives for VEXPro this year.

Here are the improvements needed:

1) Further reduce costs of everything. Maybe make the versaplanetary ring gear segments out of nylon with an embedded aluminum ring gear.

2) All the hexes and versakey patterns need to be clocked the same! We had to cut a double sprocket in half to get a set of hex keyed sprockets keyed the same.

3) Inventories need to be increased. I'll forgive the omni and mecanum shortage this year, but gears and sprockets are going to be used every year, and shouldn't go out of stock. This may clash with comment 1, but I'd like to see an attempt at both.
I imagine at least some supply issues were because of the labor disputes on the West Coast ports that gridlocked everyone's supply chain. Tying up cash in a large inventory for unlikely events like that is probably mutually exclusive with cheaper goodies.

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan
If VexPro had some items that would give teams flexibility in design without having to wait and see, it would be an incredible customer experience. IE - a gearbox speed sampler kit that will give me a variety of speeds .. snip..
What separates this from the existing Versaplanetaries? Buy a bunch of stages and mix and match to your heart's content.
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