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To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
From: Bill Dube <bdube@al.noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: E-shaft permanent magnet alternator
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>  The issue would be the spline pattern on the sun gear shaft.  Is it the 
> same diameter, does it have the same number of spines, and is there 
> enough spline available in front of the flex plate to fit the rotor 
> on?  I know the hole in the rotor is a 1" diameter, 10-spline hole.

         What would prevent you from just sliding the rotor (with just a 
round hole) over the splined shaft, and attaching it to the flexplate with 
a few screws? Splines are expensive to machine.