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Re: Fisher Price used on Arm?

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Originally Posted by MattB703
Don't use the last set of gears on the F-P gearbox. Instead, make a shaft with a hex shaped outside to fit into the second-to-last gear from the F-P assembly. This shaft will then rotate with the second-to-last gear and it can be used as your output. You'll need more reduction after that. It the past we used a big sprocket (about 10") attached to the arm and put a small sprocket on the gearbox output.

Matt B
What a great idea!!!

I am going to dissemble my motor immediately to find the bore and sprocket i need to gear down to compensate for my last gear in the FP gearbox!

thanks MAtt, i really appreciate it. (=
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