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"Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3AC937B7.A66D86...ail.net... (...) turntables? I (...) to (...) Hmm... I have an older turntable (circa 1995ish) and I'd lubricated it about a year after I got it with HO train (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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So what software does this? If it is so common to have in an e-mail program, then which do it? Andy (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Andy Gombos writes: > So what software does this? If it is so common to have in an > e-mail program, then which do it? I know of no email software with a "Reply to Recipient" command -- *THAT* is the problem. That's why mailing list operators are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Try Pegasus (version 3.12c), you have tag-marks to select whom to reply to from all the entries in the header, works perfectly. Andreas (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I read somewhere in the past as an official "Legostatement" from TLC - that no lubricants of any kind should be used with the gears, wheels, axles, pcs. etc... However, it sounds like some people have had success using controlled amounts. I do know (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Tech question for us: Any body know what an Anti-Backlash gear is? If Lego made one, we would all have super precise Robots and mechanisisms! BERG carries them... Anybody know what I'm talking about? (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Isnt that the same as the white clutch gear. Here is a link to it: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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The closest thing to an anti-backlash gear is the Conical gear (a misnomer). It can be used to load a gear train. I have used this in a design by Iain Hendry. (URL) have tried using a second motor in the gear train with a slight reverse current. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have done quite a lot of experimentation to limit backlash in certain situations. First of all, it is quite easy to make little shims from the yellow plastic material the parts are seperated into in new sets. I make ones with 0.2" holes in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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How about graphite? I don't think that will degrade plastic. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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