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Originally Posted by RaMoore
We just repeated our test with the unhardened carriers and we successfully broke our gearbox. 
We could clearly notice the damage by the 50th cycle. I'll add pictures as soon as I get a chance. We feel that hardening definitely helped, but whether it is a "fix" more testing will tell. |
This is pretty great news. Now we have a clear this fails / this does not case.
Well Done. I had forgotten to tell RaMoore when I asked them to do this that we will get them new parts to replace the damaged ones.
As to pictures. Yes, we need them.
What we need now is a mat'l lab that can reverse engineer the mat'l of the shaft and of the carrier plate ASAP. Does anyone know of a lab that will do this quick and free?
If we know the material it may be possible to design a heat treating process that can give us the harness we need. If that is possible, then one possible path toward a solution is to locate a heat treat source that will set up a carrier exchange program.
But, first things first, anyone Got Lab?
Joe J.