I don't know exactly how much force will be on it, but it will be simply hand turned. It is actually a locking mechanism, think of the rack as a deadbolt. It needs to stand up to someone attempting to force it, but normal use will be a simple quarter turn by hand. I know we have cut a gear for a...
I will be making them myself with the laser at work. :-p I just got to draw them up in cad and wait until we do some jobs on 1/4 inch stainless. The hard part is I'm not entirely sure what size/shape the teeth should be. this is not a real tight tolerance project, the teeth just need to be as...
Thank you for the helpful replies.
Yes the extra gears are to ensure direction. I would go directly off the drive gear, but the same drive will be running the diagram x 4. two will move to the right like the diagram and two will move left (one more gear for those two) So it looks like I will...
I have a basic understanding of how to calculate gear rpm, but have no idea as to how one could figure out what size and number of teeth you would need if you want to give X turn to the drive gear to get a rack to slide Y inchs. Obviously I would want to contain the entire assembly in the the...