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Re: Worm Gear Gearbox

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Originally Posted by Pat Roche
Boston gear also produces stock worm drive gear boxes, they're really efficient for worm drives and are quite heavy duty. we used one in our drive train last year and it worked beautiful. Picture Here. I beleive these were a 20 to 1 reduction and these had no backdrive.

-Pat
I did not think that you could buy gearboxes. I was under the impresion that you could only manufacturing them. Plus what is the fun in using premanufactured gearboxes, you dont even get the headaches or any of the flesh wounds that come with designing and building a custom gearbox. That is what makes it fun or at least when it is all over.
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