dpb wrote:

Not sure what OP is calling a "star" drive

The end of the mandrel is shaped rather like an asterisk. It's maybe
3/4 - 1" in diameter and the blade has a matching hole that fits over
it. Belt turns pully, pully turns mandrel, mandrel (star) turns
blades.

-- could be that it's
failing there because it was designed as the weak point.

Nope. It isn't weak.


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