Thread: rack and pinion.
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Re: rack and pinion.
One of the best chain rack and pinion designs I have seen in FIRST was on the ChiefDelphi 2000 robot. Its purpose was to entend and retract their boom-like arm. Here is a picture.

I wish I could find a picture of the back face of the robot. This view would show that 2 van door motors drove a chain up and down. The chain was attached to two aluminum tubes and was wrapped, serpentine-like, between sprockets on the 2 motors.

Can anyone from CheifDelphi give us a better picture of this?

This machine was and still is a thing of beauty. It is my favorite robot in all of FIRST, for all time. This design feature was just one of its strong points.

Andy B.