 | | Re: Help needed on gear spacing, and another question —Steve Hassenplug
| | | | (...) Rafe, Must the worm gear mesh directly with the gear rack? Or, could you put a 24tooth gear in between? (worm->24->rack) Steve (16 years ago, 3-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Help needed on gear spacing, and another question —Brian Davis
| | | | | (...) For instance, have a "floating" worm-gear-based gearbox sliding along that axle, with the 8t gears engaging an external stationary rack? If the worm gear doesn't have very far to travel, you could also substitute a rack gear or two for a (...) (16 years ago, 3-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Help needed on gear spacing, and another question —Rafe Donahue
| | | | | First (zeroth?), thanks to all the information and helpful hints. I should have realized that the worm gear doesn't fit with the rack, as their pitches won't match up. That's really obvious and I should have seen that. Second, the worm -> gear -> (...) (16 years ago, 6-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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