VEXpro 2015 Product line launch

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by nathannfm

While a bit annoying you could tap it for 1/4-20 instead

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

I imagine the #10 clearance hole can be tapped to 1/4-20 and now you could run a #10 bolt all the way through the shaft as well if you wanted.

I am huge fan of the hole in the middle. Thunderhex can replace the AM Churro tubes in a lot of standoff and spacer applications.

Yup we will just have to switch to 1/4-20, if our coach decides to buy some. The bolt all the way through isn't practical for a lot of our applications, we would need to stock a number of different fairly long lengths. The other issue is that I like having the "other" end of the shaft retained which would not happen with a through bolt.

For stand offs where we do run a through bolt it will be convient but in many of those applications we still did the tap both ends for #10 so that one side, again so that one side will be retained when doing repairs.

I'm not against the hole in the middle, in fact I think it is great as it will help teams that don't have a lathe. I'd just prefer that it was sized to tap for #10 or for a #10 thread forming bolt, since that is what we use everywhere and we haven't used 1/4-20 in a while.