Unofficial Response To: High Strength Shafts

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@Jrod9782B How you use high strength axles is totally up to you and how your robot it designed.
Many teams use them in places where small axles would likely bend/ turn into drill bits.
There are a variety of gears, wheels, and sprockets that can be used without inserts- as well as axle locks and bearings that are meant for the large axles.

To fit them through c-channels you can drill large holes with a drill press or hand held drill.

You seem new to vex (which is great!) but next time you may want to post this as an unofficial thread because its an opinion question.

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Instead of buying High Strength Shafts, you can also shove 4 regular shafts into the hole.

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I thought you were joking at first, but that is actually a really good idea

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Does this actually work? I would be worried about the makeshift “axle” twisting unless the 4 shafts are somehow held together

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It would fit, dimensionally, but you won’t get the improved torque transfer ability of the HS shafts.

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Having the larger number of axles does help (it’s like us putting axles through the different holes on gears to link them together in a large circle), although you won’t be able to match the strength of a true HS shaft. You also need to be able to keep the shafts together in a large bundle (somehow). For most of what we’ve had to do, the 4 bundled shafts work.