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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
We've use double-sprocket dead-axle drive trains in 5 of our 6 years, and every time we've only used the bolts it was designed for, along with appropriate spacers. We have never had an issue with this set up. Never sheered a bolt, never twisted it when it shouldn't have. This certainly looks like a great solution... but it's a solution to a problem we haven't seen. Is it common for teams to sheer bolts in this setup?
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1618 in 2007 had this issue; after one good hard match we had five of the six bolts sheared off in our re-skinned kit wheels. The time of repair meant we had to send a human player to our next match (we lost it).
However, one incident in seven seasons of this style of bolt pattern is pretty respectable in my opinion.
There is almost always more than one solution to any engineering problem. One part of elegant design is picking the one that makes the most sense for a particular design problem, even if that means "breaking" some normally established "rules". - Jeff Pahl [more] 
18-12-2012, 20:19
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