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Graphite could work, and should be safe. I've been using it for model train couplers, which are made from Delrin. It comes in a little tube, and you sort of "puff" it on. Kadee is the manufacturer, and it should be available in the model train (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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In what is the most pro-active customer support I have ever experienced, Paul Ellams contacted me and suggested I might beta a newer revision of his Robotics Mover software for the Palm platform. He was suprised that my range using a Handspring was (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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(...) I hadn't. Don't have the necessary serial connectors to do so, and it seems like it would be bulky and awkward even if successful. I'd be very happy to eliminate the IR tower from my laptop too, if there were any way to make Lego IR and IrDA (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Greetings, Chris! Have you seen Mike Kory's BrickRemote? ((URL) His app relies on a physical connection with the Lego IR Tower (serial port) and (I'm probably speaking way out of turn here) also appears to be able to by-pass any need to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm considering the ambitious undertaking of trying to port NQC to my Palm IIIx. I've gotten the RCXlib running, though the demo program seems to not be able to find my RCX 'alive'. I know GCC can be used to generate Palm apps, and NQC doesn't seem (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I didn't mean to start such a firestorm about this. I suspect, reality being lazy, that it's easier to fix a 'problem' like this in one place (the centralized mailing-list software) and not in a great multitude of places (everyone's varied (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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Ha Ha that's great...ok buddy, thanks... Eric, - I still have got to ponder these pix for awhile! (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) one would do with this. The Lego Mindstorms booklet doesn't explain it at all. (My host laptop computer runs Linux, and so if it is explained in the nifty multimedia CD-ROM that came with Mindstorms, I've missed it.) It took me weeks to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Whoa, I gotta think about this one for awhile..... (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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>>>>>> However,...and I say this kindly and jokingly, ....Cheater!!! You experimented (cheated) with washers of a sort, gaaa.. <<<<<< Hey! real engineering uses shims (not washers ;) And I can honestly put my hand on my heart and say everything in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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yeah, probably work real good,,,,,interesting , But I would'nt use it my self. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Interesting point about the rubber bands vs the resultant torque loss, it is true that the opposing forces on the gears along with the "rubber pull" will tender them to one direction or another in concert... However,...and I say this kindly and (...) (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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(...) 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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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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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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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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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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(...) 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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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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