[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by Travis Schuh

Wow! That is one strong tranny.
Were these results close to what you were able to calculate?

More or less. We didn't concentrate too much on these forces, as the gear teeth would strip long before any of the shafts or webs would fail. We spent considerable time calculating bending strengths on the gear teeth to make sure they would be okay.

As such, yes, these were very similar to what we calculated and predicted. Some components had an initial 10X factor of safety in them, but due to the design, the shape and size couldn't be changed much and further weight wouldn’t have been easily removed. Since the components didn't weight much at this point anyway, we didn't feel that a design change was worth while or necessary.