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Re: pic: New gear failure on 2471
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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
By any chance, was that a recently purchased vex pro pinion? I just bought a couple new ones and had to throw one away because it had a hair-line crack in it. I didn't noticed it until I started running it in the gearbox (very low load) and it was going "clackclackclack".
Although I don't know how new this pinion was, I can say that it was making a minor "clackclack" sound before the failure. However, this pinion didn't need any more reason to break, given that it was a 12 tooth made 7075 aluminum and was taking the load of two CIMs.

After replacing it with a steel equivalent, the gearbox has been working great so far. (Fingers crossed)
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