Re: Shaft Drive Uni
Mark Schecter (schecter@TFS.COM)
Mon, 5 Dec 1994 10:05:15 -0800 (PST)
> >My thought, although I hadn't written it "out loud", was to use very
> >light metals, such as aluminum for the shaft, and rather small gears,
> >for exactly that reason
>
> Small, light aluminum gears would be nice, but would they stand up to the load
> placed on them? Your legs can put out a pretty decent amount of torque and a
> unicycle wouldn't be much good if you had to worry about stressing the gears
> all the time. Even if the gears did stand up initially, the aluminum would
> probably wear fairly quickly and there go the tight tolerances somebody
> mentioned you would need. There's also the occasional collision with the
> ground.
>
> Alec
Alec,
Although I didn't spell it out, I meant aluminum for the shaft only, steel
for the gears, for the reasons you mention.
>> Mark