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Originally Posted by Jared
We did this last year, and it worked well. We tapped the hole using the lathe to keep the part/tap lined up nicely, and we put on some red locktite (the stronger one), and used a normal 1/4-20 cap screw. We chose this because it was difficult to slide a snap ring over the hex shaft.
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I would not recommend using the high strength locktite unless you don't want to be able to service it. On an Allen head bolt you will probably strip the bolt or the wrench trying to remove it w/o heating up the locktite with a torch which can destroy the items around it as well as the fact that you can't use a torch in the pits.
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Originally Posted by mman1506
We surprisingly had no problems with securing wheels like this on our WCD last year with a little bit of blue loctite. It might of helped that we tried to keep the shafts length tolerances in the negative direction so the screws would take up slop to prevent any ratcheting action. Snap rings are still significantly faster to manufacture.
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Yes cutting a grove is quicker than tapping but you need a lathe to do that while with the pre drilled hole in the Thunderhex you can just tap and go. Plus I find bolting easier than using retaining rings since they can shoot off into never never land at the worst possible time.
I do recommend that you make you shafts +0/-.00x in length so that the bolt pulls every thing tight if that is a concern. Having them a tiny bit long isn't really a problem though.