Fun With Gears

[Rick TYler]

OK, not strictly about FIRST, but this poster from Manchester, England, is sure to amuse and inspire drive-train designers:

[Brandon Holley]

haha


nice

[Suspect_Deezy]

lol! wow the enginuity is incredible! (so much sarcasm!)

[Racer26]

Wow, when I saw Manchester, I was thinking manch-vegas and couldn't help but laugh... Particularly since the slogan says making the city work... that gearbox wouldn't work at all, unless its intended purpose was to disallow movement.

[JesseK]

Give them a break guys, they probably outsourced the advertising to some graphic design firm That fact probably doesn't make us feel safer though.

[Molten]

The lesson of the story: Never trust an artist with gears.

[dlavery]

You might think a little bit before laughing at some one else so quickly.

There is a very nice and effective use for gears in this configuration.

It was used by at least one team this year, and I can almost guarantee that you saw it in action.

Remember: he who laughs last....


-dave



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[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Remember: he who laughs last....

Took a while to get the joke?

If those gears lie in the same plane, and are of the same thickness, what use would they be other than as a rather dramatic brake? If they moved independently in the Z-axis or were different thicknesses, I can think of some interesting uses, but as drawn, I'm stumped.

[Molten]

I believe that lavery is suggesting that they not all be on the same plane. For instance, if Gear 2 was 1" thick and Gears 1 and 3 were 1/4" thick and Gear 1 was not on the same plane as Gear 3 but both touched Gear 2, Then you would be directly transferring energy from Gear 1 to Gear 3. Make sense?