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Originally Posted by Kartoffee

My question: Can an FTC team use Versa Planetary gearboxes, such as the ones used for FRC? If so, how could it be attached?

As long as the motor is legal, you can utilise any COTS Planetary Gearbox. In the case of the P60( available from Banebots or Andymark and the VersaPlanetary( available from VEXpro) you will need to use a Andymark Neverest motor as the input. You may already have plenty of them attached to your 20,40,60 reduction gearboxes or you can get one of these:
http://www.andymark.com/Motor-p/am-3104.htm

First up you will need to disassemble the gearbox, or remove the front plate from the bare motor using the two screws. After this you will need to remove the helical pinion from the motor. This video shows the removal of the pinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BmOQRCacg

Then you will need to find the 550 class motor mounting plate which comes in the VersaPlanetary base kit, the Neverest motor is just a super low power 550 class motor, so you will be able to use the motor mount plate and the input collet for a 550 motor. The input shaft is shorter than a normal 550 motors so you need to take care to get as much of the shaft as you can in the collet. But it's not an issue, due to the low torque of the motor. After this you can basically just assemble the VersaPlanetary as you normally would.

A few resources to help with assembly:

Motor mounting guide:https://content.vexrobotics.com/vexp...e-20151209.PDF

User/Assembly Guide: https://content.vexrobotics.com/vexp...e-20151221.pdf

If you need a bit more guidance send me a Private Message or just reply.