Engaging Gears Perpendicular to Shaft Direction?

[Matt Adams]

Originally Posted by Cory

Errr, I feel really stupid now. I looked at the drawings and for some reson assumed that you would be pushing the teeth of the gears together, face to face, rather than the diamter, if that makes any sense. This is basically the same system as Team 116 used too.

Actually.. I think this is what I want to do?

A repost of that picture with some text.

I know you can slide the gear along a shaft into a position.




I want to move the gear and its shaft in the plane of gear rotation, as shown in the bottom sketch.

Feel free to make comments, apparently I wasn't too clear the first time around..

Matt