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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Stehlik wrote:
> But notice none of them support the weight with gears. Give those gears room to
> breathe!
They're plastic, there's 8 of them, I talked to them and their happy as clams!
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| (...) Ya I don't see any problem with this. It's a very low friction solution. Now I wouldn't do this with 8 toothed gears, but with 40 it's quite reasonable. Derek (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) John Gerlach built a rolling lift bridge that uses (40 tooth) gears as the axles, no less. It had a huge moment as it was several track sections long. He did it that way because of axle shearing... I would worry more about the axles breaking (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) This is one of my pet peeves, seeing gears supporting the weight of the robot on a rack. This is how its done: (URL) used wheels which is okay too: (URL) if you are really clever you can copy Iain like Chris did: (URL) notice none of them (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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