Just wanted to share my bad news...

[lincpimp]

Give castle a ring, they will most likely send you another motor if you send that one back to them...

The medusa 50mm with 5mm shaft is a better choice. I have had 1/8 shafts break before, and they all look cast on the inside.

I recently upgraded my hacker c50 maxx to a 5mm shaft... That was 75 bucks. I tried to weld another piece of 6mm steel to the broken shaft, but that did not go very well, as I had no real way to jig it all togehter to get the new piece straight. I was going to have the machinist turn the new piece back down to 5mm when I had it welded. I may still do this, but do not have much use for the motor right now. And I have 130 bucks in it, which is more than they sell for used... Oh well.