Hi, I'm building a lego mechanism in which the gears experiences a high amount of force. I've split several 16-tooth gears, and I'm interested replacing the standard lego gears with metal. Has anyone heard of somewhere I can purchase metal replacement gears? Or alternatively has someone done this themselves (not necessarily with metal) who could help me out? Thanks, Jack
Maybe using multiple gears in parallel would help.
Mitch
You may want to pose this question to the Lugnet Site, its a Lego related site:
would be great to get lego bricks, axles, and gears cast in aluminum or make them from steel.. My first robot arm was lego gripper, and I broke a few gears (they were in "parallel"), and I took the gripper apart.
Rich
You could make some gears yourself out of "alumilite". I think it'd be at least stronger than plastic.
I heard of it through the atlanta hobby robot club.
--buddy
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