metal lego gears

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

In comp.robotics.misc Buddy Smith wrote: : You could make some gears yourself out of "alumilite". I think it'd be : at least stronger than plastic. --Despite the allusion to strength in the name there isn't any metal in Alumilite. OTOH it *is* really neat stuff: it's a 2-part liquid that, when combined, sets into hard plastic in about 3 to 5 minutes. Generates a lot of heat while doing so, so don't make molds from anything that's likely to melt or fall apart. It's very useful for making small solid objects, but I've never tried to use it to make things like gears with teeth. Well worth getting some, tho, just to do the experiment; you'll think of a lot of uses for the stuff.

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