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Hugh
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The dust cover was on, so no worries there.
Thanks!!!
"Justin Mahn
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I am not wearing my wife's panties today, so my boxer shorts will have
to do! LMAO
hugh
The large gear is called the "spur" gear, and the small gear (attached
directly to the motor output shaft) is called the pinion.
Getting the gear mesh right is an art. A popular method is to cut a
strip of paper and place it between the gears. Mash the pinion and
spur together as closely as possible with the paper in place, then
lock them down. Feed the paper out and you should have pretty good
gear mesh.
Rick R.
And thanks for putting me straight on the gear names. I shall never make
that mistake again!
Hugh
Something you should be aware of, is that most of the time
there is variation in clearance, at different points on the spur.
Most especially if you run 64 pitch. Which you probably do not.
Which is why I do not use the paper method..
If you do, right after you take the paper out, turn the gear back to
the area where the paper was.
observe the amount of play at that point.
Then rotate the gear a few teeth, and check to see that the 'play'
is the same as what you observed.
Do this every few teeth.... My money says you will find a spot where it
binds up.. THAT is the place to put the paper... If you insist on using it.
Dan
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just because you have one,
doesn't mean you have to act like one...
I call this "a broken spur gear". If your spur gear is badly
out-of-round, it needs to be replaced.
Rick R.
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Don't use a tiny piece of paper, use a long strip that is at least two times
as long as the circumference of the spur gear. If you can pull the strip all
the way through end to end without binding then the mesh is not too tight
anywhere. At least one of the gears should have an odd number of teeth to
even out wear so it is important to check for at least two revolutions of
the spur gear to find any tight spots.
SIDE NOTE: After the paper trick, it worked a ton better.
*round of applause*
hugh
> The large gear is called the "spur" gear, and the small gear (attached
> directly to the motor output shaft) is called the pinion.
Why do we do this? I work at a company which deals with gearing
professionally (and in some depth!) and the terminology is always "pinion
and wheel" or "pinion and gear" (or occasionally "input and output" ;-) for
the small and large gear respectively (although some of our software uses
the convention that the pinion is always the driv_ing_ gear...)
Properly, *both* gears are spur gears, as the teeth are straight-cut (as
opposed to helical).
Not trying to upset the applecart, just curious to know how/why/when we
(R/C car people) settled on non-standard terminology. At least bevel pairs
are still "crownwheel and pinion" ;-)
Jonny
According to www.dictionary.com, a pinion is
"A small cogwheel that engages or is engaged by a larger cogwheel or a
rack."
BTW both pieces are gears AND wheels, so your terminology seams to be just
as nonsensical.
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"Jonathan Hodgson" <jp_ho...@eng1neer.com> wrote in message
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Perhaps my stuff is just different than yours.
I can take a brand new 64 pitch spur gear, and there is nearly
always a difference from the tightest point, to the loosest.
Enough so that if you set the clearance perfect, at the loosest
point, it will be too tight at the tightest.
Which is why I check it the whole 360 degrees.
I set the minimum clearance, at the tightest spot...
Besides, the point to the original poster was not bad advise
to check at more than one point, regardless if the gear is
perfect or not... this way, you know.
your mileage can vary...
> "Jonathan Hodgson" <jp_ho...@eng1neer.com> wrote in message
> <<snip>>
> According to www.dictionary.com, a pinion is
>
> "A small cogwheel that engages or is engaged by a larger cogwheel or a
> rack."
Yeah, but he's asking about the spur gear, not the pinion. Why do "we"
(hobbyist) call it a spur when the rest of the industry does not?
Bill R.
Crawl back under your rock, troll.
"raineyw at knology dot net" <"raineyw at knology dot net"> wrote in message
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> <<snip>>
>>Yeah, but he's asking about the spur gear, not the pinion. Why do "we"
>>(hobbyist) call it a spur when the rest of the industry does not?
>
>
> Crawl back under your rock, troll.
>
>
What??? What the hell part of my post defines me as a troll??? I simply
clarified the original question!
Bill R.
You first.
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