Originally Posted by
rustlererad3
Well bud I'm going to design and make my own and actually I am quite popular out on the floor because they agree with me that a single set screw isn't the best solution for it because we used to use some toolin that only ha a single set screw and often would easily fail and trust me bruh I'm not a fake engineer as your implying but everyone has an opinion so I'll attack my problem as I see fit and since they are some others that seem to have genuine good ideas I'll listen but hey that's why I never said my idea was the best thing ever just an option
I am kind of amused by all of this
You can go ahead and spend all this time and effort to design something completely unnecessary. I have been in this hobby for 20+ years and the only time pinions come loose is when the set screw is not tightened enough. I have run nothing but RRP aluminum pinions for the last 5 years. When I bought all the pinions (a bit of money for the whole set) I cleaned all the set screws and pinions with solvent, put a drop of blue loctite on each set screw, and put them on a pinion gear rack. I have never had a pinion gear come loose. The key is using a high quality wrench, and always double checking that the pinion is tight. If a pinion has been allowed to vibrate loose on multiple occasions, the threads will begin to degrade. The key is once the threads are worn, the pinion will never stay tight. One set screw, two set screws, or twenty. One set screw is what the situation calls for, so one set screw is what is used.
What piece of equipment at your place of employment had only one set screw that failed. What was the job of this part?