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Re: VEXPro - After the season

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Originally Posted by z_beeblebrox View Post
We used a complete Vex Pro drive system with ball shifters, drive in a day and traction wheels. Overall, everything works great (The shifters shift plenty fast), although the shifters do occasionally lose output shafts, but are easy to fix..
After the Bit Buckets' robot lost an output shaft in their last qualifying match, we made a quick crutch to try to prevent it happening in eliminations. This is the Rube Goldberg fix....good for entertainment value, maybe not the best solution to the problem, but they were still driving fine when they lost.
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