Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01138
To: dennlill@buffnet.net, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:25:32 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Pager Motors gearbox
Greetings
dennlill@buffnet.net writes:
> I finnaly built a pager motor gearbox from scratch that really has some
> torque worth mentioning. I tell ya' these pager motors are hard to extract
> torque from. I needed nine gears to get it to what I wanted. I'll try to
> remeber to post a few pics in the next few days. I have enough gears for two
> gearboxes so I can build a traditional solar pager driven walker. You know,
> for those people desperate for gearboxes, don't underate building your own.
> Sure it takes a great deal of practive, but it's amazing what you can get
> away with simply with paperclips and gears.
I was wondering about pager motor gearboxes recently. You see, I've built a
few photovores and they're all fine and dany except that they move if there is
the slightest bump on the surface! So, my questions are:
1) Can hand-made pager motor gear boxes be used for photovores (with wheels)?
Has anyone tried this before?
2) Where do you guys find those nylon gears? Would gears from wind-up toys and
such work? What about metal gears?
That about sums my questions up, but I'll probably come up with more later. 8)
-TurtleTek
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