Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02158
To: Dennison dennlill@buffnet.net, Bumper314@aol.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:41:31 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: snake
Well, if you can find those metal wind-up penguin toys at a cheap price, the
gear boxes in them usually have good, metal, right angle gears. I had some,
but my cat nudged them off my windowsill where I had set them into the
flowerbed, and I can't find them at all now. I still have some plain gears
lying around, though I use them in experiments pretty often.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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>From: Dennison
>To: Bumper314@aol.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: snake
>Date: Thu, Apr 8, 1999, 9:18 PM
>
> Hey HEY!, I'd like to have some company in the snake-bot world. Metal gears
> huh? I have NO idea where to get them, Mine are some nice heavy plastic ones
> I canabalized from a gear box (well, one gear I have _is_ really cheap). I
> have no idea where to get metal gears. I wish I knew. Perhaps that small
> parts company might have some, I'm waiting for their catalog. Otherwise, the
> advantage is that even thought the MECI motors have really nice torque in
> the arrangement, which carefull consideration should be given to. Anyway,
> the meci motors are, as someone said, VERY compliant, which means they turn
> easilly if you twist the snake, so you won't strip any gears. Good luck! And
> I've been looking to build another one, so if you find a source of gears,
> let me in on the secret!
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