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Re: Re:Engineering 101

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Subject: Re: Re:Engineering 101
From: <jblair1948@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:06:48 -0400
> Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com> wrote:
> 
> Bevel gears would work, but you might also be thinking of a worm
> to turn a straight gear.
> 
> http://auto.howstuffworks.com/gear5.htm
> 
> http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/JSAPP/wormgear/wormgear.html

Not having read the above 2 links - they may say this, the
one nice thing about the worm gear is they are supposedly 
self locking. So if you have a load you are lifting, and 
stop, the load won't try and lower itself.  It will stay 
put.

John






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