Shout out to Zblj

[Grosse Kind]

Like to thank Zerobricks for his help with a nightmare that had four of us scratchin our heads for days and he sorted in as long as it took to send two Emails.

Thanks to Grum64 for putting me in contact with him as well.

Whilst i'm about it, AllanP for helping me thwart a geartrain issue neither of us had encountered, Thomol for pointing me in the right direction with a hassle that gave me the irrits for 6 years, Sariel for his very handy gear combo and ratio calc'er that saved a newbie to the joys of 12/20/36 tooth gears and where they can or can't go together a lot of headscratching, and most of you mob on here in general for thoughts and banter.

Cheers, Glen.

[Kristof]

Making a shoutout on a public forum, it would help to at least say what is it all about don't you think? Otherwise such post has no meaning for uninitiated :/

[nerdsforprez]

Good post. Funny..... several of those mentioned have also either heed me out with a project or contributed to a project in some way shape or form. This is overall such a great community. Love how there is such a lack of ego here. Everyone is just here to have a great time. +1 to all those mentioned and others out there who are similarly-minded.

[Grosse Kind]

Making a shoutout on a public forum, it would help to at least say what is it all about don't you think? Otherwise such post has no meaning for uninitiated :/

G'day kris. Had hells own drama tryna get compound angles/rotations/lengths/clearances/ involving a pair of uni's at different heights and planes to link up drive betwixt four axles, two joiners, and a train of gears at either end on my Project on LDD and ol mate stepped up to the plate and selflessly sussed em out, fixed, and sent it back to me with nought bar my simple request and was happy as larry to be of assistance on what was boggling a good few of us to do. Upon arrival in sorted out format i just cut/pasted it into my model from the jig i sent him and all was apples.

Any clearer sport? If it'd been a derogatory statement that someone had screwed me around or had no idea then i reckon yes, a detailed and open to scrutiny explanation would be justified but a thankyou in public not so much. As such i saw no issue with leaving it a fairly open statement.

Ta Nerds, was in that vein. No question theres many others that do great things to help too on the overall, just these were ones i can name from my dealings/experience thus far. Most here lack ego which certainly does help, and at the end of the day i agree thats a bloody handy thing on a resource such as eurobricks is.

[Kristof]

:) Alright. Perhaps I was aslking more about what is the complex project you are building, should that be possibly more interesting than just abstract talking about uni's and gears, adding some content over the nice yet somehow bare fact that these people are nice (which is still good to point out, no argue here) ;)

[RohanBeckett]

struth, Grosse... you're on a Euro forum.. might have to tone down the 'stralian... they won't be able to understand us!! :D

[Grosse Kind]

Come off it Rowie, i got dragged over the coals last time i asked a euro a question in deutsch, surely they'll accept us colonials yabberin on in a bitta' stroin :)

Kris: i'll PM ya a snap of the monstrosity. The main reason i slotted it together in LDD is to utilise bits i don't own or have enough of. That, and to be able see the little bugger in one colour as its real life counterpart looks like a box of crayons exploded (as i did with my last freebuild, i love that the program lets me have a record of what made for safekeeping). Once i have it on an LXF file i can strip it if need be to make my next tasteless creation with its entrails but even then, LDD won't let me use a lot of the bits on it as they're obsolete. I also would like to maybe someday run off the BOM file and bricklink order all the frame bits in one/maybe two conciliatory colours but no rush just yet.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

It seems common for other builders to help others out, and that's a great thing about the members of Eurobricks.

So what is this project you are working on?

[allanp]

Any time man .

if any of you was wondering, the issue Grosse Kind had was with a gearbox I posted online. It was the 5 speed+R in this picture:

The issue was that I had designed it years ago (probably in 2000) to handle lots of torque for a motorised model as the one found in 8448 couldn't handle much torque. I never tried to use it in a non motorised push along model. When used in such a model there is a problem. The gearbox can sometimes lock up and jam, but only in first gear, only when turned in one direction and only when driven from the output as is the case with a push along model. Me and Grosse Kind figured it out after some head scratching, can you? Big thumbs up to the first to do it

Edited February 14, 2016 by allanp

[Zerobricks]

Thank you and I am glad to have been able to help you with the LDD part of the builld. The comunity here is really warm and welcoming, its like a second home

[Lipko]

The issue was that I had designed it years ago (probably in 2000) to handle lots of torque for a motorised model as the one found in 8448 couldn't handle much torque. I never tried to use it in a non motorised push along model. When used in such a model there is a problem. The gearbox can sometimes lock up and jam, but only in first gear, only when turned in one direction and only when driven from the output as is the case with a push along model. Me and Grosse Kind figured it out after some head scratching, can you? Big thumbs up to the first to do it

Too much gearing up, I guess. If you connect the fake engine to the axle that has the one piece of z=20 gear (instead of the axle with the z=12 gear) than it should perform better. This issue was one reason for me to go back to 3+R gearboxes. The direction depending friction is also quite usual with gearboxes. My guess is that the idler gears on the not-engaged axles does something differently when rotated in the opposite direction. No time to do a full analysis...

Any yes, this is a great community. No wonder if I refresh the forum at every five minutes from 6am to 10pm.

Edited February 14, 2016 by Lipko

[ChocolateEinstein]

this whole thread just makes me

(also I'm definitly going to use some of those gearboxes in some future stuff, thanks for putting them out here!)

Edited March 15, 2016 by ChocolateEinstein

[Tommy Styrvoky]

Any yes, this is a great community. No wonder if I refresh the forum at every five minutes from 6am to 10pm.

Yup same here, maybe every 20 minutes I check, if there's something great happening, especially with the recent topics of the newer sets, such as the Porsche.

Edited February 14, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky

[zweihander]

I totally agree with the overall sentiment here, including refreshing all the time.

P.S. Is it a coincidence that today is February 14?

[allanp]

Too much gearing up, I guess. If you connect the fake engine to the axle that has the one piece of z=20 gear (instead of the axle with the z=12 gear) than it should perform better. This issue was one reason for me to go back to 3+R gearboxes. The direction depending friction is also quite usual with gearboxes. My guess is that the idler gears on the not-engaged axles does something differently when rotated in the opposite direction. No time to do a full analysis...

Any yes, this is a great community. No wonder if I refresh the forum at every five minutes from 6am to 10pm.

It's not the gearing. This gearbox would lock up even with no load on it and only in one direction. You are getting warm with the idler gears though. It's a combination of one particular idler gear and the shaft it runs on, which when in 1st gear spins at a different speed.

[Grosse Kind]

So what is this project you are working on?

No details till its done tommy, and even then i'm probably gonna be the only one pleased at the fruits of my (and contributions of the aforementioneds) toils but i've named it the triqueen. Progress is slow and preliminary visuals are hideous (a face even its own mother, me, has trouble with loving) so i wouldn't hold your breath waiting.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

No details till its done tommy, and even then i'm probably gonna be the only one pleased at the fruits of my (and contributions of the aforementioneds) toils but i've named it the triqueen. Progress is slow and preliminary visuals are hideous (a face even its own mother, me, has trouble with loving) so i wouldn't hold your breath waiting.

It's no problem, I can wait. I was interested with the digital parts. I hope it's worth the wait.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky