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Originally Posted by Kevin Sheridan
Those poor gears. What did they do to deserve such treatment?  |
well the first one that flew out was a 30 tooth idler one that was supposed to have a pin in it to couple it to the shaft. I have not yet installed any of the pins =\ but it had no where to go and since we're not using the speed sensors yet from that shaft and was so anxious to get it moving around i kinda of skipped that for now.. xD the second gear which was a cluster came out due to the main failure. a number 8 screw that keeps the entire shifting block attached to the frame on a spinning, pivoting shaft. That screw had no lock washer or locktite on it so we knew that would happen sooner or later but didn't really care and just wanted to see how fast it would go!
so yea that was all our, or rather i should say my, fault. but it's ok! nothing broke so after break we can resume more testing and abuse of the system! after a lockwasher and locktite that is xD and probably that pin as well...
I kind of like that it failed and how it failed, it adds a bit of humor at the end xD