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Re: Attempting to Cut BaneBot 56mm Shaft
The shaft is steel. BaneBots has been monitoring these boards lately so maybe someone there will offer more detail on the type of steel and what hardening (if any) is used.
It is generally not a good idea to side load a planetary gear set like this, so the set up for your cutting operation should include supporting and clamping the shaft on both sides of the cut to minimize side load.
There may be a safe, reversible method of disassembling the unit so that you can securely clamp the shaft and final spider assembly for cutting, but since I haven't attempted that I can't offer advice -- maybe Dr. Joe or (again) someone from BaneBots can, or maybe you'll need to experiment.
Purely out of curiosity, why do you want to cut the shaft?
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