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    and it's used for what?

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    Quote Originally Posted by marksbug View Post
    and it's used for what?
    Probably just a demo to show off their capabilities.

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    What will they think of next?

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    To think something like that in your mind is one thing. But to actually build it is really cool.
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    Gears can take many shapes https://imgur.com/gallery/tig3sGP utterly useless as a gear train but cool...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat View Post
    Gears can take many shapes https://imgur.com/gallery/tig3sGP utterly useless as a gear train but cool...
    Wow, that's pretty cool. But, there's still the issue of balance that has to be reckoned with, especially in high speed motion.

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    I think it's more of a demonstration that gears don't actually need to look like gears, than an actual geartrain design. It would work well for an art automata or something like that.

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    or for a steaming pile of punkrock watch parts to be mounted on the clock tower for another lightning strike in 2055 100 years after the first one and send us all back to when it was safe to poke your eye out with a loose untied shoe lace...and drink koolaid...and elections werent so fraudulent with zero way to confirm "mail in votes" I sure hope that they get that thingy connected to the flux capacitor soon!!! run Marty run!!!!!

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    or for a dough mixing machine.

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