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Re: 2014 FRC's Biggest Loser

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Originally Posted by nathannfm View Post
I am not quite sure what this is, but it got me thinking, you could get 2 pieces of shaft, tap the ends of both and connect them with a piece of threaded rod. Same concept I think.

As for hex shaft, I have found that the Vex hex shaft is extremely high quality and precision, you may want to look into that.
That's a technique for sticking carbon fiber tubes together to make longer carbon fiber tubes.

It is the same concept, but there are two reasons to not use a threaded rod. First, the keyways would have a negligibly small chance of lining up with each other. Maybe a problem, maybe not. Second, you would have to make darn sure that threading never came apart, or even loosened a little bit. If it did, you'd have threading in bending, and that is a very bad time.
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