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All this talk about Lube, got me to think......
So I decided to do a small experiment.
Everyone knows that I am a fan of measuring the speed of my lego
motors. i use the official lego speed counter.
here is what i did and found:
I took a worm to 24 T combo and put it on the counter. the reading was
20 rpm
I then went on a quest for the Vaseline. I proceeded to lubricate all
the parts of the worm to 24T combo, and put it back on the counter.
the reading was the same.
this is a VERY informal test. but it initially should prove to calum
that a drop of preventative maintenance lube will not "significantly"
change the speed of a gear train.
I will say that this would have stopped the dust.
Chris
Vaseline.
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| (...) It doesn't prove anything, Chris. I have two objections to your "test": -Worm to 24t is a very simple gear mechanism. You know as well as I do that friction doesn't build up with only two gears. -The viscosity of the Vaseline probably causes (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Really to be a valid test you should put the worm to 24T under load. This is when a performance difference will show up. However it could be tricky to setup. The simplest way would be to lift a weight a fixed distance. Use string (non-lego if (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| Matthias, Your points are valid and i could not explain them better. Thank you. This topic has a few grey areas. (...) Yes, Calum I did tell you this. And for the most part it is true. Only one part was so badly worn that I would not use it in THAT (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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