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Originally Posted by raf4far
It all depends on the type of plastic and where it is in the gearbox. You should work on the gearing calculations if you want to do custom gearing to make sure that the widths of gear can handle the stress. That being said, the best way to go about this is to redesign the gearbox to use off the shelf bevel gears. This would be much easier for cost, replacement parts, and time.
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Thank you guys for all of the replies and the reason being for a custom gear is to try and keep the box as small as possible. I am going to toy around with the CAD and see if I cant get the small bevel gears to work from mcmaster.