Thread: Where can I find gears?
View Single Post
  #17   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 13-05-2008, 08:38
Andy Baker's Avatar Woodie Flowers Award
Andy Baker Andy Baker is offline
President, AndyMark, Inc.
FRC #3940 (CyberTooth)
Team Role: Engineer
  
Join Date: May 2001
Rookie Year: 1998
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Posts: 3,422
Andy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond reputeAndy Baker has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to Andy Baker
Re: Where can I find gears?
Quote:
Originally Posted by vivek16 View Post
aluminum gears with the kinds of torque you see in *normal* gearboxes (think toughboxes) will not hold up.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cory View Post
Nothing off the shelf that is.
We are working on some 50 tooth 6061 aluminum gears, but it is too early to see how they are performing. Yes, ideally, it would be nice if these were 7075, but they are not. We will have some results by mid-July.

Andy