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Re: pic: Gold VexPro sprocket

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Originally Posted by Adrian Clark View Post
This reminds me of 2013. We used a press fit dead axle wheel assembly. To make assembly easier I put the shaft in a freezer and the sprockets on a hot plate, the sprockets would either get slightly lighter or turn a quite off putting green color.
"Easier" is one way to put it. I seem to remember you quickly putting two sprockets, a wheel, and the shaft in alignment, pouring on some green loctite, and hanging off a 5 ton arbor press in order to press the assembly together. With about a 50% success rate...

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