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Old 12-04-2012, 02:25 PM
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The "good" axle also had twisted splines and a hairline fracture starting at the same place as the broken axle. It would have broken on the next launch. Maybe a bad batch, maybe steel was too soft. Maybe D-Cel can analyze the steel when this is over and let us know why it failed.
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