Thread: Window Motor Gear Problem
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Re: Window Motor Gear Problem
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Originally Posted by AZDevilRobot View Post
Hi everyone

For my team's disc shooter, we were thinking of using a gear system to angle our shooter. A 72 tooth gear would be attached to the shooter and a 14 tooth gear would be spun by a window motor and turn the big gear. The problem is, the small gear we have has a hex shape hole and won't fit on the window motor because of the shape and because its too big. Do we have to buy a gear specifically for the motor or is there something we can do so the gear will fit?

Thanks for the help
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You are allowed to modify the little plastic piece on the window motor. We grinded it off one year and pressed a sprocket onto it.

Now and days though we just laser out a custom plate-gear with the "shape" of the window motor output piece and press them on. Easy is you have the resources.