Worm Gears and Ticker program parameters?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:34 pm
Art:
A bit of background...I'm back to working on the 1860's E Howard Tower that I modeled using Gearotics back in 2016.
I'm trying to figure out how to repair the reduction gear set that winds the weights for the strike side of the clock. The gear set has a double worm drive that has an advertised 288:1 reduction.
There was a spare worm gear that someone, decades ago, had machined for the gear set but it didn't' look like other worm gears that I've seen. I figured that if I modeled the worm / worm gear that would give me some confidence that the gear could replace the destroyed worm gear.
I've been away from Gearotics, Vexx, and the Augie Vector processor for quite awhile. I am beginning to understand the Ticker program that you added to the Gearotics package. I managed to crash the worm gear portion of the program. The Ticker program starts OK. I can create spur gears but when I select worm gears the program crashes. I've tried re-running GearoticMotion.msi, over writing the existing installation, but the worm gear portion of Ticker still crashes.
Where are the default parameters for the worm gear stored? I think if I can reset the parameters then the Ticker program would not crash.
Is there a description of the parameters used for worm / worm gear creation in the Ticker program? I've unsuccessfully searched for definitions in the gearhead forum and also your Youtube channel.
Bill
A bit of background...I'm back to working on the 1860's E Howard Tower that I modeled using Gearotics back in 2016.
I'm trying to figure out how to repair the reduction gear set that winds the weights for the strike side of the clock. The gear set has a double worm drive that has an advertised 288:1 reduction.
There was a spare worm gear that someone, decades ago, had machined for the gear set but it didn't' look like other worm gears that I've seen. I figured that if I modeled the worm / worm gear that would give me some confidence that the gear could replace the destroyed worm gear.
I've been away from Gearotics, Vexx, and the Augie Vector processor for quite awhile. I am beginning to understand the Ticker program that you added to the Gearotics package. I managed to crash the worm gear portion of the program. The Ticker program starts OK. I can create spur gears but when I select worm gears the program crashes. I've tried re-running GearoticMotion.msi, over writing the existing installation, but the worm gear portion of Ticker still crashes.
Where are the default parameters for the worm gear stored? I think if I can reset the parameters then the Ticker program would not crash.
Is there a description of the parameters used for worm / worm gear creation in the Ticker program? I've unsuccessfully searched for definitions in the gearhead forum and also your Youtube channel.
Bill