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Re: CIM direct drive

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Originally Posted by Manoel View Post
We've had problems using M3 setscrews to hold a gear to the CIM shaft (mainly because the small allen key prevented us from tightening the screw properly) but switching to M4 setscrews completely solved our problem (both last year with a high torque, two-speed gearbox and this year with a single, high speed gearbox).
We had one gear with a 4-40 and one with a 6-32. Both performed equally poorly.
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