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Backlash in Lego Gear Trains
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lugnet.technic
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Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:23:57 GMT
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Fellow Lego Engineers,
Does anybody have a good solution to the ever-so-common problem of backlash
in lego gear trains?
Help,
Chris Mattson
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Backlash in Lego Gear Trains
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| Chris, it depends on your point of view. As backlash gets less and less, gear train friction gets more and more. The friction is somewhat between the gears but mostly in the shaft bearings where additional force comes to bear. Unless you need (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Backlash in Lego Gear Trains
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| Try to measure the quantity you are interested in as directly as possible. If you have to count rotations do it at the output of the gear train not the input. For a given quality of gear (TLC's gears are certainly not AGMA 10s !) you have to strike (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Backlash in Lego Gear Trains
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| Give Bob Fay an email rfay@we.mediaone.net a lot of his models have to deal with gear bcklash accurately . Perhaps get him to reply to your post here (if his response doesn't beat this post). (URL) Mattson" <mattson@byu.edu> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Backlash in Lego Gear Trains
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| (...) backlash (...) You may find some answer in a post where I explained how Paolo Masetti won the line following robotics contest during Italian Legofest IV. One of Paolo's robot key feature was the reduced backlash in the steering gear train. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
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