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Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:23:32 GMT
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Hmmm...


In lugnet.robotics, Steve Lane writes:
> In lugnet.robotics, Eric Sophie writes:
> 
> > Interesting , but  we need one for Lego! I do see what you are saying, and
> > It is an interesting solution,, although a little hard to visualize...Thanks!
> 
> I was going to say this solution is easy, but then I tried it. There are
> only two shaft's in this example. As lego don't make don't make a 'double
> width gear' You'd have to use four to make it in lego. All you'd need is
> three normal 16 tooth gears and the fourth would have to be the one with the
> hole that's free to spin. slip the driving ring piece (I have two from the
> space shuttle) into the open side of the free wheeling gear and then attach
> the driving ring to it's shaft utilizing a rubber band connected to a part
> fixed to the shaft. This will mean the gear with the hole will exert a force
> on one of the gears on the opposite shaft, combined with the forces from the
> meshing of the third and fourth gears there wil be no play between the two
> shaft's.
> 
> This only works for two shaft's at a time.
> 
> Steve



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  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
(...) Explain 'Hmmm...' :-) I of course omitted the fact that my solution as described produces no mechanical advantage just a shaft going in the opposite direction. Of course, you can always replace the pair of gears on the second shaft with a pair (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)

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  Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
 
(...) I was going to say this solution is easy, but then I tried it. There are only two shaft's in this example. As lego don't make don't make a 'double width gear' You'd have to use four to make it in lego. All you'd need is three normal 16 tooth (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)

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