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| (...) This sounds like the basic technique for "tempering". You've probably heard of tempered glass or tempered metal. From what I remember, this just changes the way the strength is handled in the material. A normal material bends more instead of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| Plastic doesn't get stronger under heat-treatment. This type of heat treatment is used to control the crystallization of metals, and long-chain polymers like plastic just don't behave like that. If you need stronger gears, double them. It is the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Yes, this is true. (...) Now that's quite a statement! I got an email yesterday from someone saying that the axles were the weak point too. I don't know how you're using your gears, but when something breaks in my models, it's the gears! (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| I have never broken a gear. But then, I am a mechanical engineer; I am nice to my gears. But I fry a lot of electronics! My experience is that the torsional stiffness of the axles is the limiting factor of high-torque designs. I have permanently (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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