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> If the material is failing, I doubt filling the holes will help (perhaps,
> *maybe*, with a very strong glue, but I still doubt it). The problem is
> getting anything to bond the plastic nearly as strongly as the plastic
> bonds to itself.
I don't think the plastic-glue bond would have to be stronger than plastic with
itself. I'm just talking about filling up the hole so that the gear won't crack
as easily at the thin points next to the holes. This is where the breaks are
always occuring.
> I don't know what the set-up is, but others have suggesting ganging gears
> (using more than one).
The only problem here is space. The entire rig which the gear is part of is
made of aluminium and is positioned in the centre of a wooden robot. I'm not
too keen to redo that part. I might be able to cut off the side bits of two
gears (probably on one side of each) then glue them together. This way they
would only take up 1.5 lego spaces, which is all the room I have.
I'll probably try filling the holes first, but not sure.
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| (...) It won't offer any support since the filling is not bonded to (or "integrated into") the gear body - they would just fly out when the gear cracks. (...) Which brings a question: Why use Lego in a rig with wood or aluminum? Is it a Lego MOC (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.technic)
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