tonystott wrote:
And from the pulpit of the church of the bleeding obvious....
The question should really not be "how many bends before break" but "how do I minimise the number of times my Miragedrive shaft gets bent" in the first place.
Murky bay water hiding sudden shelves can do it....
OTOH, sometimes there is no cure for stupidity.... I quit flying airplanes when I saw that in myself.... -)
I think I will just buy a couple new ones, install them, keep the others onboard as spares against the day when one bites the big one.
Only loose end is the LocTite situation. ..... It is tempting to install them w/o LocTite for ease of replacement in the field, but that would seem to introduce the complication of corrosion.
So the search is on for something besides LocTite to serve the anti-corrosion function.
The observation that using the drive body to bend them is a Bad Idea rings true to me and I will mend my ways in that regard.
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