Ken Welter wrote:

  Just looking at photos of the six pinion planet and wandered if
there is enough room to put six bolts between the gears to bolt the
planet to the prop shaft flange ??

   Ken

There is not really enough meat between the pinions to use bolts.
What I would do Ken is replace the pinion shafts with hard shoulder bolts.
That is what I am proposing with the large hollow shaft design.

Paul Lamar

Ken &Paul,
I would have to support that one hundred percent.
The hard shoulder bolts are needed to maintain the free-play of the planets
in the planetary housing - straight through bolts would IMHO distort the
housing.
George (down under)

 
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