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| A query about "Modified arm with quarter 20t double bevel gear on one end". If it's a quarter gear, and has 8 teeth, how can it be a quarter 20t gear? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with the universe? Does 6 x 9 really = 42? ROSCO (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) BTW, this piece looks like it could be *really* useful in a lift bridge... ROSCO (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Uh, doh! Thanks for picking up on this. I have to admit to not looking the part over very carefully. When I get home tonight I'll look at it closely and measure the gear diameter. It certainly appears to be 1/4 of a gear, but there are 8 teeth (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) as (...) gears. (...) My guess is it's slightly less then 1/4 arc of the new 36-tooth double bevel gear that appearing in a couple of the forthcoming Spybot sets. Cheers, Mark (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| Thomas Avery <thomas.avery@intec-hou.com> wrote in message news:GtMwC1.H3F@lugnet.com... In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford writes: <snip> Why are liftarms called "liftarms"? What are they supposed to lift? </snip> Now there's a good question. Don't (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I believe they were used to lift the bucket on the jcb as they were used extensively in the mechanism. Steve (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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