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RE: Worm Drive Question
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:45:01 GMT
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Tim McSweeney <tim@ams.co.nzAVOIDSPAM>
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> If you really want one, you can commit the heresy of running
> a standard
> axel through a thread cutter and use some little nylon nuts (available
> at electronics supply houses). At least one other person has
> done this
> and posted results to the web (I forget who and where -- photographic
> memory, but no film ;-) ).
Sorry I Lost you there, what do you mean by cut Lego?
Tim
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I mean cut threads (like on a screw) into the axel using a thread cutting tool (part of a tap and die set available at most good hardware stores). Check out (URL) near the bottom of the page. (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | RE: Worm Drive Question
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| (...) As in run an axle through a die to give it a thread, then put nylon bolts on it. Couldn't you just get some threaded rod, and spare your Lego (and avoid heresy :) ? Daniel "Dan'l" Miller Senior, School of Aeronautics and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| If you really want one, you can commit the heresy of running a standard axel through a thread cutter and use some little nylon nuts (available at electronics supply houses). At least one other person has done this and posted results to the web (I (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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