Helical gear help

[Gui Cavalcanti]

Helical gears are available for order in left-hand and right-hand configurations. If I have a left hand and right hand gear on one shaft, and corresponding left and right hand gears on perpendicular shafts, will the perpendicular shafts rotate the same way or in opposite directions?

Thank you!

[Greg Ross]

Excuse my ASCII art, but I think you can get the picture. If this is your drive shaft, when it turns, the teeth will push in opposite directions. So unless the driven shafts are mounted on opposite sides of the drive shaft, they will be driven in opposite directions.

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