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 Post subject: Uprated crosshaft
PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:23 pm 
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I'm in the middle of refurbing a Sprint O/D gearbox for a club member and thought I'd share this with you...


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That ain't gonna bend in a hurry.

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 Post subject: Re: Uprated crosshaft
PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:41 pm 
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Victorian engineering at it's finest!

I'm trying to imagine how that hexagonal hole was made, the whole thing looks like something knocked up with a minimum of tooling!

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 Post subject: Re: Uprated crosshaft
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:22 am 
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Socket welded in and ground flush - you can see a ring round the edge? It might not break - but it looks like it's in the process of rounding off.


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