atari printers - gears - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Jun 2006

On Jun 12 2006,  1:30, Philip Pemberton wrote:
...
  Tony Duell wrote:
 > Personally, I'd want to use a metal gear that was a sliding fit onto the
+ > > motor sprindle, and then fix it on with a suitable Loctite.
...
 ues whoch p
 I'd be tempted to file a flat section on the shaft and add a matching flat to
...
  the gear, or use a small screw to fix it. I'm not
sure what the lifetime of
...
  Loctite is, but I wouldn't want to be pulling a
plotter apart a few years down
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  the line just to put some more glue on a gear...

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 From memory, the gear is too small to make that
practical, even an M2 would be far too big.  Tony is talking about engineering
Loctite
designed to fit parts onto cylindrical shafts, not not superglue, and
the life is decades.  I've got model steam engine axles assembled that
way in the 1970s.

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