Andymark Super Sonic shifters

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Originally Posted by BoilerMentor

YOU AGAIN!?!?!?

Just kidding. Lot of folks have been breaking gears in the final stage on the VP gear box this year, even with the fix to the interface between the shifter shaft and the hex shaft. They're probably alright if you play it pretty safe on gearing, aggressiveness of control outputs, and driver behavior (good luck with that last one).

What can I say, the Ball Shifters have been good to us and I hate to see them get a bad rep.

Honestly I have no clue how some teams are having such difficulty with the final stages, we run our drives pretty hard but the most "wear" we get on our gears is dirt buildup; clean it off with a brush and they look good as new.
I can only assume that some teams are either improperly lubricating the final stage gears or something specific to their implementation is causing an issue, because in the 3 years we've used them, we've had zero problems.

Comparatively, I've have had a number of Andymark gearboxes (Toughboxes, and Super Shifters, though more-so the Toughboxes) over the years that have had their Steel gears grind down and wear out during competitions; consequently, between that and their higher weight we basically never use them anymore. Nothing against Andymark, we buy lots of other stuff from them, I just like the VexPro Gearboxes better.