Thread: Engaging Gears Perpendicular to Shaft Direction?
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Re: Engaging Gears Perpendicular to Shaft Direction?
One change that can be easily made to the shifter to increase the speed change without using different gears could be making the output shaft always be the shaft that currently has the 1:1 ratio, and changing the blue sprocket to a 20 tooth if the other one is a 10 tooth, or something similar. This would give you a 3:1 reduction and then a 2:1 reduction giving you 6:1 and a 1:1. you could do less or more teeth to make the increase more or less dramatic. That way newer can be very competitive with just an atwood drive having maybe 6ft/s and then 1ft/s or whatever they would like.
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