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Re: Fisher Price used on Arm?

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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky
...You can get a hold of the FP couplers that were in the kit last year. (for some reason, there is an inordinate amount of FP toy cars in the trash. You can find one) it isn't terribly difficult to bolt a sprocket to one of those....
In my pinion, if you are going to use the standard F-P transmission, you should use the standard F-P coupler.

The best part is from the Jeep model as I recall because they have 10 spokes rather than the more typical 5.

Also, drill the shaft out from the strange dim. that the axle of the Jeep is to something normal - 1/2 inch works great in my opinion.

To attach a sprocket to the coupler, I recommend bolting (or welding) a sprocket to a thin disk that is the size of the ridge of the coupler (about 4 inches in diameter) and then bolting that disk to the coupler. It has worked great for us in the past. See the picture below.

Joe J.

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