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Re: VEX PRO. To use it or not to use it.

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall View Post
Most high-quality anodized aluminum gears are made from 2024, and anodized before the teeth and bores are finished (i.e. the cut teeth are bare metal).
Are you sure about that? I don't have any specific knowledge, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me from a mechanical standpoint. I mean, the anodizing process doesn't care about surface geometries, so anodizing before or after wouldn't be too much different. And having a bare aluminum-aluminum wear surface sounds like a rather poor idea to me, what with aluminum's propensity for galling and all that.
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