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    Shear Key Design

    Hi, We use a shear key in the output shaft of a motor to prevent catastrophic failure of a mechanism. However, sometimes the key shears but the mechanism still able to drive to catastrophic failure despite the key clearly in two pieces. The current assembly method to retain the key is to drive...

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