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Subject: 
I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:20:38 GMT
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Tech question for us: Any body know what an Anti-Backlash gear is? If Lego
made one, we would all have super precise Robots and mechanisisms! BERG
carries them... Anybody know what I'm talking about?



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  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
Isnt that the same as the white clutch gear. Here is a link to it: (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
The closest thing to an anti-backlash gear is the Conical gear (a misnomer). It can be used to load a gear train. I have used this in a design by Iain Hendry. (URL) have tried using a second motor in the gear train with a slight reverse current. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
(...) I have done quite a lot of experimentation to limit backlash in certain situations. First of all, it is quite easy to make little shims from the yellow plastic material the parts are seperated into in new sets. I make ones with 0.2" holes in (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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