Workshop Notes

Schrodinger's Gears

I'm entering the latter stages of a new downloadable model. I've had fun making the gears work!
There are sixteen teeth on the large gear , four on the small one. So, over all a reduction of four to one. The four tooth gear is 15mm wide, this is to allow for warping in the large gear, it can have a fair amount of twist before the teeth loose contact with each other.
Because of the saw tooth shape of the gear teeth the gear only works properly in one direction.