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Re: pic: Wheel

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
Why?

What advantages does this offer over a more common, more flexible approach?
It removes 6 bolts, nuts, washers and spacers per wheel from your drive system.

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
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.
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.
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