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Re: pic: Lightened Gears

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Originally Posted by thefro526 View Post
What's the weight lose on those sprockets? We use sprockets very similar to those on our drive train and they seem to weigh like 1lb each or so. It seems like lathing them down like that would shave off at least 50% of the weight if not more. Also is that gear out of the Toughbox?
You can take out over 50% of the weight from the AndyMark gears.

We pocketed/drilled ours, and a stack of 44 went from 19 lbs to ~8.5 lbs.
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