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Originally Posted by Madison
Why?
What advantages does this offer over a more common, more flexible approach?
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It removes 6 bolts, nuts, washers and spacers per wheel from your drive system.
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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56
It's definitely rigid at the expense of a huge amount of machining time and material waste. The sprocket also doesnt have the typical chamfer which could lead to interesting performance as well.
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Machine time is really not that bad because all that really is added is a roughing operation to remove the material from the OD of the wheel to the OD of the sprocket then an 1/8" cutter does the teeth of the sprockets and for extra lightning I went in with a 3/16 cutter to put the spokes on the sprockets then finished it a woodruff/ keyseat cutter to get the space between the sprockets.
As far as material waste it uses an extra 3/4" of stock on the wheel.
The lack of the chamfer is not that big of a deal I have ran sprockets like this over the past 3 seasons with no issues.