Way to not drill holes for High Strength Shafts

VEX V5 Technical Support
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a claw-bot :worried: it couldnā€™t reach the tower so we added a longer arm but is weighs to much for the normal axles

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could you pm me a picture?

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if i remember ill get it to you on Tuesday

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if it is weight issue, you need gear up with gear ratio. Simply add HS shafts will not solve your issue.

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Itā€™s worth remembering this note from the High Strength Shaft product page:

VEX EDR 2", 3", and 4" High Strength Shafts are actually designed about 1 mm shorter than their respective 2", 3", and 4" 8-32 Standoffs.

This means that if you use standoffs to hold together two pieces of metal, the High Strength Shaft can rest on High Strength Shaft Bearings attached to those two pieces without any cutting required.

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If you have the High Strength pillow bearings you can set them on top of c-channel.

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as far as I know high strength pillow bearing do not exist.

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Oh oh right. This is what a team of mine did, and I thought it was rather clever. What they did is they took 2 pieces of 3 long ribbon, attached the first two holes to a piece of C-channel and did the same with another piece of ribbon two holes to the right. What this ends up doing is you have two pieces of ribbon that are sticking up one hole above the C-channel and are one hole apart from each other. Using this you can mount a high-strength bearing flat just above the C channel. YW

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Like so

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Idea credit to 9457Y

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What the frick is ribbon

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ā€œribbonā€ isnā€™t itā€™s official name, itā€™s more of a ā€œstreet nameā€ that everyone uses for it.

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Never heard that in my two years XD thx

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never heard that name for it either in my 5 years of vex

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Iā€™ve heard multiple teams/programs use it in my 5 years of vex. Must be a Mankato thing? lol

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What do you call it out of curiosity?

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I call them 1x1 metal strips

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i call them the long skinny bois
everything on my team is called (insert name) boi(s)

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yeah we have c-channel, thiccck boi c-channel, and thiqk boi c-channel
we call ā€œribbonsā€ @Avonderweidt-channel
i am relativity skinny

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no, donā€™t do that the HS will be under tremendous stress and eventually the plastic will just grind away breaking your mechanism.

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ok sureeeeeeeeeee ( tryin to get 20 characters) eeee