Lesson Learned 2016 - The Negative

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Lesson Learned 2016 - The Negative

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05-06-2016, 06:52 AM

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Re: Lesson Learned 2016 - The Negative

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Originally Posted by Jonny_Jee

Aluminum gears for gearboxes is not the best place to save weight.

For higher load applications (cough drive), I have learned to prefer steel. After seeing how many teams lost teeth on alum gears glad we did steel...

To save weight we do pocket out the gears (Carbide > 4140) on a CNC mill with a fixture.

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