Fun With Gears [Archive]

Rick TYler

22-04-2008, 11:21

OK, not strictly about FIRST, but this poster from Manchester, England, is sure to amuse and inspire drive-train designers:

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/210/imag0016bwr2.jpg

Brandon Holley

22-04-2008, 11:23

haha

nice

Suspect_Deezy

22-04-2008, 11:36

lol! wow the enginuity is incredible! (so much sarcasm!):D :eek:

Racer26

22-04-2008, 11:59

Wow, when I saw Manchester, I was thinking manch-vegas and couldn't help but laugh... Particularly since the slogan says making the city work... that gearbox wouldn't work at all, unless its intended purpose was to disallow movement.

JesseK

22-04-2008, 12:41

Give them a break guys, they probably outsourced the advertising to some graphic design firm :rolleyes: That fact probably doesn't make us feel safer though.

Molten

22-04-2008, 13:21

The lesson of the story: Never trust an artist with gears.

dlavery

22-04-2008, 13:52

You might think a little bit before laughing at some one else so quickly.

There is a very nice and effective use for gears in this configuration.

It was used by at least one team this year, and I can almost guarantee that you saw it in action.

Remember: he who laughs last....

-dave

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Rick TYler

22-04-2008, 14:00

Remember: he who laughs last....

Took a while to get the joke?

If those gears lie in the same plane, and are of the same thickness, what use would they be other than as a rather dramatic brake? If they moved independently in the Z-axis or were different thicknesses, I can think of some interesting uses, but as drawn, I'm stumped.

Molten

22-04-2008, 14:28

I believe that lavery is suggesting that they not all be on the same plane. For instance, if Gear 2 was 1" thick and Gears 1 and 3 were 1/4" thick and Gear 1 was not on the same plane as Gear 3 but both touched Gear 2, Then you would be directly transferring energy from Gear 1 to Gear 3. Make sense?