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Subject: 
Re: Strengthening Gears
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:26:21 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Tobbe Arnesson writes:
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5) After a few turns (got a soft axle) a "snap" was heard and there
was pieces falling... from the non-boiled gear!

Ha! How about that? We now have one confirmed test that gear-boiling works.

Anyone care to speculate on the physics behind this?

TJ

p.s. Thanks Tobbe for sacrificing your gears and axles.



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  Re: Strengthening Gears
 
(...) Yup :) (...) The inner tension of the gear after molding got out? (...) n/p I have a few #6 axles and z16 in my overflow bin... /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: Strengthening Gears
 
(...) I talked to my co-worker who's a rock climber about this interesting matter and he claims that climb ropes get better and better from stress regarding max weight/pull capabilites, however they also get crispier. Climbing ropes are generally (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Strengthening Gears
 
FUT: lugnet.technic (...) There's a lot of talk and little workshop here. I know nothing about gear streangth, I have never broken a gear - unitl today. Feeling the only way to settle this is to actually test it: 1) I took a z16 gear and boiled it (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha) ! 

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