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Re: Power Pullin' With My Tractor
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Date: 
Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:13:27 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Gillis Hommen writes:
Sorry for digging up an old thread ;)

Dude, this is old! :-)

It's always the axle support point that fails, never the teeth.

That's been my experience too. Especially with the old-style 24 tooth gears.
In fact, the axle support kinda warps as the axle rotates out. And then
sometimes it just breaks.

Just use the new style 24t gears. The axle suport is VERY solid and I
haven't broken one yet!

I'd like to use 2 24tooth gears connected with with 4 friction pins, but
unfortunately that's not possible there, as the 2nd one would touch the
gearbox's clutch-thingy. (no idea what it's called)
On another point in the drivetrain, that IS possible. I can even use 2 24
tooth gears with partly broken axle supports(!), by putting four friction
pins in them and then putting them together on an axle, with the broken
sides opposite to eachother. Lego reclycling :D

That's a good idea. I did something similar a while back, but with axles
instead of pegs. It worked well.

I was also kind of wondering is lego will replace these parts.

Probably not. The old style 24t gears you've broken aren't made anymore.
They might replace them with newer style ones, but I can't say. It's worth a
try I suppose.

TJ



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  Re: Power Pullin' With My Tractor
 
(...) I don't have any new style 24t gears. My newest lego set is the 8880 supercar from 1995, that has now been dusted off and mutated to serve as a school project. :) (...) New style 24t gears would be fine, as long as they're compatible with the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Power Pullin' With My Tractor
 
Sorry for digging up an old thread ;) In the solar car I'm building (see the 'heavily modified 8880 chassis' thread) I've so far broken 3 old style 24 tooth gears. (among some old style 12 tooth crown gears, but that's no surprise really...) The (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)

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