12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
9:49 p.m.
This topic came up several years ago. At that time, I
emailed Tony about a
shop in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, that makes gears for model
railroad locomotives (I recently emailed Ethan offlist with the same
information). I don't recall if Tony ever checked them out. I'd contact them
myself, but I don't have an Atari printers to measure the gear.
I hadn't checked them out, but I just have, and I don't think they do
anything small enough. They don't do many 14 tooth gears at all (which is
what's needed for this plotter I beleive), the one I could find seems to
be designed to fit on a 2mm spindle. The motor spindles in the plotter
are a lot thinner than this, and since (as we all know), the wall
thickness of the gear around said spindle is tiny, I doubt if a gear
designed for a 2mm spindle could be small enough.
When I get a round tuit, I will take one of mine apart and attempt to
work out the specso of this gear prroperly. Then we can see if anyone
makes it as a standard part.
-tony