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Re: Sonic Shifter - recent feedback?

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Originally Posted by BoilerMentor View Post
Let me remind you that the very team you're mentoring this year had three, successive failures of the aluminum gears in the final reduction stage on three cim ball shifters. Including a pair of back to back failures that took us out of a one day offseason event we traveled 8 hours round trip for. I can assure you, based on that experience from 2014 we will NOT be using vexpro gear boxes in the drivetrain.
Hmm, we haven't had any problems at all after 2 regionals and 2 offseasons with our 2014 bot and our 3 cims ball shifters.