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Re: Fun With Gears

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Originally Posted by dlavery View Post
Remember: he who laughs last....
Took a while to get the joke?

If those gears lie in the same plane, and are of the same thickness, what use would they be other than as a rather dramatic brake? If they moved independently in the Z-axis or were different thicknesses, I can think of some interesting uses, but as drawn, I'm stumped.
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