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  Re: Strengthening Gears
 
It appears a great way to test this would be to use a simple torque wrench. Use a metal axle, (to show stress at this connection). A metal axle will also not twist to give a false reading on the wrench. Fix a point at the gear teeth. Loading up the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Strengthening Gears
 
(...) Perhaps doping axles would be a good idea... --Mike (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  RE: Palm and pbForth
 
(...) Yes, this is very easy to do. I'd have to change the GUI I supply too, but that would not be too bad... (...) It's not pbForth that's the problem, it's the host-side software that I need to update to use the USB tower. (...) The RCX does not (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
 
  Re: Palm and pbForth
 
(...) If you changed pbForth to use 2400,o,8,1 instead of 2400,n,8,1 wouldn't that make it work with the USB tower? It seems to me like that is what the standard Lego firmware expects from either tower. That appears to be how it works under Windows, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
 
  Re: Strengthening Gears
 
FUT: lugnet.technic (...) There's a lot of talk and little workshop here. I know nothing about gear streangth, I have never broken a gear - unitl today. Feeling the only way to settle this is to actually test it: 1) I took a z16 gear and boiled it (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha) ! 


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