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Re: "Toughbox Nil" - Integrated Chassis/Gearbox

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Neat Idea,

We did that exact thing last year and experienced no failures. Its perhaps a little tougher to assemble than a standard gearbox, however we felt it made up for that slight difficulty in great packaging.

My one caution would be to watch which way your bearing flanges face, you want to design it in such a way that a bearing can't fall out and cause a failure.

For Reference here's a picture of ours.
Cool. I figured somebody had to have done this already. It's great to know that it has been used without issues, even if 2009 wasn't exactly a year hard on drivetrains. Will you guys be implementing something similar this year?