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gear meshings
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:34:35 GMT
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I have tried to figure out the gear meshings of the standard Lego beams, half
beams, gears etc. I came up with the concept of the Legon, the smallest
unit of Lego measurement which seems to be about 1/32nd of an inch.
I then used a couple of programs to search for possible gear meshings on
horizontal, vertical and diagonals using increments of half holes [generated
by the small special two hole beams] horizontally and plates vertically.
The first draft of the results are at
www.aloha.net/~mburger
The results were "tested" by looking for some favorite empircally discovered
suitable meshings, but could otherwise contain errors. Also it is hard to
describe just what is meant by a spacing, is it inclusive holes, holes between,
space between etc. The program was aimed at finding center to center
distances between so it takes a minute to figure out just what the charts are
saying. Also the tolerances are still uncertain. Plus and Minus 1/32nd of an
inch were used in the search.
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| (...) Hint: Most LEGO dimensions are single digit integer numbers of millimeters. A brick is 8mm wide, 9.6mm tall, a stud is 5mm, an antenna (and all the similar parts) are 3mm. Larger pieces are almost all based on the 8mm brick size (eg a 8t gear (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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