|
No. It failed due to pre-engagement. Pre-engagement damaged the third, fourth, and fifth teeth enough to be unable to engage in the distance the pickup tooth can be pulled. The pickup tooth would never fail this way from AoE. The slant you are seeing in the pick up tooth is from the gears skipping over it as they are unable to engage the other teeth. The pickup tooth would have been the last one to fail. If the pickup tooth failed first, you wouldn't be seeing any damage on the other teeth, and the slant would either be in the opposite direction or it would have broken off cleanly.
Pre-engagement is caused by feeding issues. You did not tune your setup properly to feed at your rate of fire and that is why it failed.
|