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Old 21-03-2014
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Originally Posted by /tobys View Post
If you are using alloy pinions, I find they are much more susceptible to sand/grit damage than steel, which in turn damages the tooth profile, whcih chews the spur. Using steel pinions, the damaging effects on the pinion and spur are less and I usually just have to flick out the odd embedded grain from the plastic spur.

For the cost of 1 pinion, its an fairly cheap and rapid way to test for an improvement.

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Thank you toby ill try that in the future. Never had the problem in past with b4 c4 b44 dango cubed is the first but if steel helps thats the way foward.
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