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Subject:	Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:42:17 GMT
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Listen guys, I'm not playing around with a "Building toy" here, look, http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39692 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=37892 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=27109 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39789 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39790 When working - creating on this scale, you begin to demand the highest preformance from all aspects of Lego. Eric "Legomaster" Sophie In lugnet.robotics, "Tilman Sporkert" <tilman@webmethods.com> writes: > > It's really hard for me to fault Lego for the sloppy mesh of their gears. > > Not when you consider their per unit price. I imagine that some > > of the slop > > is intentional for purposes of reducing friction. We are working > > with puny > > little motors after all. If you wan't to limit backlash, just use the big > > gears and remember it is a building "toy". >

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		Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
(...) Looks like toys to me. Really incredibly cool toys! Tilman's post supporting my "Toy" claim mentioned how torsionally flimsy the technic axles are. This could be used to take the backlash out of a gear train. Pull out four 48 tooth gears, two (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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		RE: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
(...) It's not the unit price, but the primary motivation for Lego products: It's a toy for kids. Yes, it has found some applications in education and amateur robotics, but it's still a toy. To build exact mechanisms, you not only have to deal with (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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