 | | Re: Worm gear... whence the length?
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| (...) The number of thread has to be an integer. If not, you could not been able to use multiple worm gear on a same axle. And the thread pitch is determined from the straight gears pitch. (which is something like nPi/m studs (n,m being intergers). (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jul-08, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Worm gear... whence the length?
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| (...) True, with the caveat that the LEGO worm gear has only a single thread. Another way of putting it is that if you want to multiply align (stack) worm gears, the number of times the thread goes around the worm gear has to be an integer (or since (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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