pic: New gear failure on 2471
 

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And that kids is why keys suck and we should be very grateful for the advent of hex shaft solutions in the last couple of years.

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Because hex doesn't produce stress concentrations....

And splines aren't used in torque transmission applications...

:rolleyes:

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By any chance, was that a recently purchased vex pro pinion? I just bought a couple new ones and had to throw one away because it had a hair-line crack in it. I didn't noticed it until I started running it in the gearbox (very low load) and it was going "clackclackclack".

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Of course hex shafts produce stress concentrations. It's just that the induced stress is far lower. They are also far more convenient in a number of ways.

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Although I don't know how new this pinion was, I can say that it was making a minor "clackclack" sound before the failure. However, this pinion didn't need any more reason to break, given that it was a 12 tooth made 7075 aluminum and was taking the load of two CIMs.

After replacing it with a steel equivalent, the gearbox has been working great so far. (Fingers crossed)

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Bunnybot?

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Hey its the open source hardware logo!

http://www.oshwa.org/open-source-hardware-logo/

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Did you get your wires crossed and let two CIMs fight it out to see which way the bull gear would spin? :rolleyes: