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| David Paule writes: > Does anybody have methods for reducing gear backlash? Ugh. The standard way to do this is with high-precision gears, and/or special split gears with a spring. I don't think there's much to do about it with Lego parts. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| =>David Paule writes: => > Does anybody have methods for reducing gear backlash? How about "reduce the gear train length?" (Not what you're looking for, I'll bet :-) d. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Well, the standard way on worm drives is to load the end of the worm with a spring, so there is always contact on one "side" of the worm. Similar things can be done for spur gears, but they all involve loading the meshed teeth in one direction with (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi. Russell is right. I did alot of this in my former life as a mechanical engineer, but it's not as difficult to do in LEGO(R) as one might think. Basically, one has to set up two parallel gear trains and then 'preload' them against each other by (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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