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Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:42:17 GMT
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Listen guys, I'm not playing around with a "Building toy" here,

look,

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39692

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=37892

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=27109

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39789

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39790


When working - creating on this scale, you begin to demand the highest
preformance from all aspects of Lego.

Eric "Legomaster" Sophie

In lugnet.robotics, "Tilman Sporkert" <tilman@webmethods.com> writes:
It's really hard for me to fault Lego for the sloppy mesh of their gears.
Not when you consider their per unit price.  I imagine that some
of the slop
is intentional for purposes of reducing friction.  We are working
with puny
little motors after all.  If you wan't to limit backlash, just use the big
gears and remember it is a building "toy".




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  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
(...) Looks like toys to me. Really incredibly cool toys! Tilman's post supporting my "Toy" claim mentioned how torsionally flimsy the technic axles are. This could be used to take the backlash out of a gear train. Pull out four 48 tooth gears, two (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  RE: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
(...) It's not the unit price, but the primary motivation for Lego products: It's a toy for kids. Yes, it has found some applications in education and amateur robotics, but it's still a toy. To build exact mechanisms, you not only have to deal with (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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