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Re: Question on Attaching Hubless Gears

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
If you have a lathe and some decent lathing skills, you can use retaining rings. You can get heavy duty ones that will work plenty well, you just need to be able to lathe some reasonably good tolerance grooves on the shaft.
Thanks this was what we were going to do in addition to the key and setscrews. We wanted to know if the setscrew was possible. We figured that it was needed to prevent the key from smashing around in the keyway and widening it.

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