07-09-2011, 08:12
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,753
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Re: Hex Axle- How to
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Originally Posted by thefro526
Quick suggestion if you're looking to play with hex shaft:
Contact a local metal supplier and ask if you can look through their scrap. We have a supplier down the road that has dozens of random pieces of stock that are left over from cutting down 20' lengths. We got quite a few short (smaller than 3') pieces of hex last year for nothing.
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Be aware that if you do this, you might end up with 6061 hex axles. Then you'll suffer months of mockery by all of your friends because of a silly drivetrain failure.
...just a heads up.
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