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Re: pic: Flaming Monkeys 2016 Power Take-Off Gearbox

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
What made you go with a custom ballshifter shaft over the COTS options?
I imagine the ability to customize the length of the shaft to allow other gears to be placed on it. We are using a similar layout, and had to jump through some major hoops and do some weird things to make the COTS shifter shaft work. If we had the machining resources to build our own ball shifter shaft this season, we would have jumped on it in a heartbeat.

Custom can often be much simpler than COTS.
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