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Re: Extending a cantilevered drive shaft.

If you look at the topmost image, look closely at the shaft between the two sprockets. It ends before entering the leftmost sprocket. It's close, but close isn't good enough

The second image shows a really quick rendition of my proposed solution. The red piece represents the extension that would be bolted into the end of the existing output shaft. The leftmost sprocket from the top view would rest wholly on the red extension piece.
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