gears and gogs

[ron hawesParticipant @ronhawes49865]

cogs and gears

[ron hawesParticipant @ronhawes49865]

i need some cogs or gears for my titanic build any idea who sells some the shafts are 4mm and the motors will be std 540 6-12v.

 

thanks ron

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Hobbies, as per the catalogue seen in WH Smiths (and online), has gears and wotnot. I think they should be able to sort you out.  You COULD use the MFA 2.5;1 geared motor unit, to save fiddling about?? unless you have the motors already of course.

 

Ashley

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Why have a gearbox?…..Use a simple motor and keep the speed down!

 

Or am I missing something?

 

KISS!……………Bob

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I love you too Bob…..

 

I believe Ron`s Titanic is a largish boat, and may well require gears on 540/1 motors (assuming the lower powered MFA types) as he is suggesting.

 

To be honest, a duo of MFA800 motors and a 540/1 for the smaller centre prop  all running on 12v might be more appropriate? If ,as its a larger version to mine is anything to go on, you wont need many revs, and an 800 lightly loaded will only sip at the battery.

 

As you say Bob, who wants all those gears? (this from a man who has introduced all sorts of extras on his current build!)

 

Ashley

[ron hawesParticipant @ronhawes49865]

i cant just attach the motors in the normal way with a u joint as the shafts run parralel to the keel and the formas are in the way of the motor position, seing as my titanic is 1/100 scale its nearly 9ft long so i want to keep as much strenght in the formas as possible so i thought of putting the motors over the shafts and reducing the ratios.

Edited By ron hawes on 08/02/2010 20:56:57

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Ron……..Post a few pictures of your build please

 

We`re all interested!…………….Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

http://www.shgmodels.com/acatalog/

Pages 22 and 23 refer.

Dave M

[ron hawesParticipant @ronhawes49865]

thanks dave thats a really good site ill be ordering a few bits from there

[ron hawesParticipant @ronhawes49865]

bob, ive put some pics in my album of the titanic for you to look at

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