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Originally Posted by Pat Roche

Also if you are looking to make your own three speed transmission I would suggest looking up team 222 Tigertrons. They have a really sweet three speed transmission that they've used in the past (I haven't seen them this year so I'm not sure if they used it again or not).

We haven't used the three speed since 2004, but we have used our TigerDrive 2 speed version since 2006. The TigerDrive is still a ball lock transmission but it is much more compact and light than in 2004. The main reason we switched to a two speed is because we really hadn't seen the need for three speeds in recent games. One nice thing about the ball lock is you can keep stacking gears together until you run out. We had talked about making another three speed based off of our current TigerDrive that would weigh no more than 4 lbs, but this year's game really didn't need it. I guess the best advice I could give is the best spent time is going to be determining whether or not the game and your team strategy requires 3 speeds.

More information on our three speed can be found here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1539