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.--. \
. . |
/ \ / b.
| - |//|
|.--' '----'/ .
a. |'--. .----. /
| - |/
\ / /
/. .:
/ ' -- ' :
bore _
|=|
[___] --clamp screw

a = "hinge"
b = "cut"

I've made some homemade flex couplers using setscrews to bite the
shafts, but clamps are sooo much classier.
This crappy drawing is an end view of the clamp portion of a helical
flexible beam coupler. Question: how's that cut made, from b. to a.?

TIA,
James Arthur

you mean on ones like these:

http://eolsurplus.com/images/Helical6005-12-6.jpg