Worm Gear Gearbox

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by dddriveman

I did not think that you could buy gearboxes. I was under the impresion that you could only manufacturing them. Plus what is the fun in using premanufactured gearboxes, you dont even get the headaches or any of the flesh wounds that come with designing and building a custom gearbox. That is what makes it fun or at least when it is all over.

For the most part, you can use whatever you can buy off the shelf, mechanically. So gearboxes are perfectly legal as long as they aren't custom made. Viz. AndyMark

Most people talk about building gearboxes for custom functions that an off the shelf one wouldn't fit for, or more commonly for a shifting transmisson that is difficult and expensive to obtain off the shelf. Or was, at any rate. See: Nothing But Dewalts