GearHeads Corner

Hello,

Is there a way to make two of the exact same wheels and
place them one behind the other in Gearotic and make them
turn in the opposite direction (one clockwise and one counter clockwise)
with the simulator?

Richard

If you make two identical gears and stack them on the same shaft - have one gear drive a pinion -  The pinion is solid on its shaft and the shaft extend past the second gear you want to drive and has a second pinion that is "clear" of both gears.  This pinion that is clear then drives another pinion on that is also solid on its shaft and finally the shaft drives the last pinion that engages the second gear.

This is how I do it in practice .

Hard to describe but it works.

Rocket

Attached is a .gth file that I think does what you want.

The .gth file is in metric.

I created a spur gear.  Then added another to the same shaft.  At that point  The driver spur was linked to the shaft and the shaft was linked to spur1.  Unlink sprur1 from the shaft and then link spur to spur1.

Study linkages some more.  When a gear links to a gear the protocol makes the second gear rotate reverse from the first.  When a gear links to a shaft the shaft and gear turn in the same direction...the same goes for linking a shaft to another gear.

You need to play more with linkages and Gearotics in general...have fun with it...try all sorts of odd gear arrangements.

Bill

Thank you very much....