Thread: What is your favorite method for attaching gears to shafts?
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Posted by Gui Cavalcanti at 04/30/2001 9:35 PM EST


Student on team #422, Mech Tech, from Governor's School (GSGIS) and Verizon.


In Reply to: What is your favorite method for attaching gears to shafts?
Posted by bill whitley on 04/30/2001 3:51 PM EST:



I'm in no position to speak for my team, me being the programmer and all, but I now officially hate set screws. We have a reaaaaally simple 1:4 gear ratio drive train that propels us at a leisurely pace on treads... and we used set screws on the sprockets that were on the drive shafts. ::uncontrollable shivers::

We literally snapped 3 plastic sprockets (right down the set screw line, no less) on our shafts before reverting to steel sprockets that were PINNED. No problems as of yet...

Maybe this was off-topic with sprockets and everything, but still.

-Gui Cavalcanti
Team 422, Mech Techs
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