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bevel gear spacing
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:09:56 GMT
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Has anyone found a good way to use 12t bevel gears (and/or the new 20t double
bevel) in geartrains without placing the bevel right against a beam? Whenever
I have a bevel at the end of a stack of gears I find I need a 1/4 bushing
spacer to make the bevel gears mesh reliably (where a full bushing is 1 brick
wide, and half bushings are the smallest pulley). I know I could just keep my
bevel gears all against plates, but that sometimes makes for a very bulky
construction.
What I've been doing is cutting one of the thick segments off of one of the new
flexible accordian-like tubes and using that to pad out my gears. Is there a
genuine non-mutilated LEGO part which can do what I want?
--Ben
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| (...) Here's a couple of ideas. 1. Just extend the shafts out into the air so that they intersect in a convenient location, where the gears naturally mesh. Use the busings to support them. This solution fails when the axles become too long and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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