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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
These are good questions. Mark and team 343 has a great implementation of this idea. Their fork coupling is very elegant.
Keep in mind that there are some prior designs: Matt Reiland and team 226 have shifted their dog gears with servos for a couple of years. Also, back in 2000, we (team 45) shifted the Bosch gearbox with a servo.
We at AndyMark are working on a new, improved, cheaper AM Shifter for 2006. However, we still will offer our 2005 version.
Andy B.
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Andy....I wouldn't use the word "cheaper"...."less expensive" sounds much better for a quality product such as yours. (so are your going to out-source the assembly to Mexico??)
Dan...Andy's right. If you purchased some DeWalt gearboxes and adapted them for another application, would you pay royalties to DeWalt or Joe Johnson???
Once you make the purchase, they are yours to do with as you want. We purchased the AndyMarks b/c our machining resources were slim this year and we got an outrageous quote to machine some stock gears. The AM's were are bargain. Since we had already shipped the robot, the lesser of the two evils was to modify the AM's to meet our drive application. While I was at it, I made a few more modification to meet our specific needs.
Let's see what Andy and Mark have in store for the 2006 models. Meanwhile, I see what I can do to put together a white paper illustrating the servo shifting mod.
Note to self....must talk to Andy Baker.....where does he find time to devote to all that he does???