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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
Quite a few teams have has sucess with waterjetted/lasered gears. The only difference is that with laser you want to stack up multiple plates instead of having a one piece gear. For a few examples, 148 has run gears like this before and 973 has run many gears like this before, such as gears used on their swerve and 2013 arm.
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Flat gears and sprockets are pretty easy for a waterjet or a laser cutter because the involute profile is relatively tolerant. Navid is talking specifically about cutting helical gears on the waterjet, where not only linear tolerances but also angular tolerances can cause meshing problems.