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Originally Posted by Travis Covington

We have made shafts similar to these since 2007. The 2006 shafts were slightly simpler and didn't have the 5/8" hex. Each year the shaft changes slightly as well, usually to accommodate differing gearbox configurations, wheel width changes, etc.

The tolerance on the hex portions of these shafts is +-.0005, but that may be overkill depending on the precision you require and the amount of slop you deem acceptable.

We no longer made them this way, but just for reference to everyone our very first set was made on a manual lathe, and then hexed on a manual mill with a cnc indexer (just lets you specify rotation angle). We've also made a few in house as a proof of concept, and simpler ones for other systems, both on a manual mill and manual lathe.

For season our sponsor with a live-tooled lathe runs them, the next best thing to a screw machine in this case.