We moved the pitch to 20 degrees and ran the ratio up to 20/65. First we sheared the grade 2 'butter bolt' that engaged the hex drive to the ratchet hub. We pretty much had the motor maxed out power wise (6.5hp) when that happened so I was hopeful when we replaced that with a grade 8 bolt that we wouldn't break anything else. However before we fired it up this time I said to my buddy Jerry "well, with that soft shear pin gone, now we can break expensive stuff".
It almost came true.You'll see in the video that I fucked up and engaged the idler on the motor drive waaay too fast and I'm sure that's where I blew the side out of the ratchet hub (carnage pics on the blog later). It only lasted a short time and I never got close to max throttle before it blew up.
