4488 Off-season Gearbox

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

I know 6 inches are big, and we plan on using 4s, but I like contigencies. Also, can you fit an AM Kit wheel or a VexPro VersaWheel onto the 1.25 inch output shaft? Everytime I look those wheels are wider, and I don't even know how you would mount those to a 1.25 inch long output shaft.


Also its about ~$100 extra per gearbox, not $50.

WCP sells theirs single speed for $150, are you saying you can make the above single speed for $50? I'd love to get your suppliers

Not trying to pick on you, it's just I'm not buying the cost argument.

Making your own box for people to learn, so it's yours, so it's cool, etc... are all valid reasons, but I don't see this saving appreciable amounts of money (and it saves that money at appreciable amounts of time).

EDIT: On some more thought, $50 per gearbox isn't implausible. It's a little lower than what we spent, but not impossible.