Equidistantly? Have you been reading the Edbonics book of grammar
confusion Alan?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
To: "Ed Woods" <fogbro1@comcast.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] overdrive planetary alignment
> There's nothing bizarre about this at all. The annulus will still
> rotate around the sun wheel even if the planetary gears are installed
> one or two teeth off from equidistant distribution. The annulus will
> simply rotate off centre to the sun gear, and the planetary gears will
> mesh slightly out of alighnment.
>
> The dots help make sure each of the planetary gears are mounted
> equidistantly from each other, that's all.
>
> Alan
>
> On 4/19/10, Ed Woods <fogbro1@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Healey List,
>>
>>
>>
>> Here's what Nelson Riedel of Buckeye Triumphs wrote about my question:
>>
>>
>>
>> Installing Epicyclic Gear: The sun gear can be installed in the planter
>> carrier with the planet gears in various positions. If the gears are
>> not
>> in
>> the correct position, the sun gear shaft will be off center. This
>> would
>> be
>> recognized when it was impossible to pass the main shaft through the sun
>> gear,
>> the planet carrier and the unidirectional clutch. There are indexing dots
>> stamped into the top of each of the planet gears. Each gear was turned
>> so
>> that the dot is on the outside and a line through the dot and the center
>> of
>> the planet gear shaft also passed through the center of the planet
>> carrier
>> as
>> show in the left photo below. The sun gear was inserted with the planet
>> gears
>> aligned as indicated. The dot alignment was verified after the sun gear
>> was
>> in position. The three dots didn't line up as indicated, so I did it
>> over
>> and
>> got it right. The planet carrier with sun gear was then inserted into
>> the
>> annulus. The sun gear was rotated back and forth slightly to get the
>> gears
>> to mesh properly so that the planet carrier would drop into the annulus..
>>
>>
>>
>> So position does matter!
>>
>>
>>
>> Ed Woods
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>
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> Alan
>
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