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Originally Posted by EricH
Not quite...
What usually happens is that if one tooth breaks off, the next tooth takes more force than it would ordinarily (fewer points of the same force being applied = more stress as well), plus a chance of shock loading. Then that one takes off... repeat until you're out of gear teeth.
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When only a small number of teeth are removed, there is normally a lot of damage to the other teeth. But this damage doesn't seem that it could be all caused by the normal meshing of the other gear. In this case is it the shrapnel that is the cause of this?