Grosse Kind

Good morning. Wondering on the 12 tooth bevel gears adaptability for purpose please. Have learned that they superceded the 14 teeth variety yesterday and looking in LDD (nifty little creature that one. Bit finnicky in places but enjoyable) its not a specifiable part unless i'm not looking jn the right spot. Will a 14 and a 12 mesh at all and if so safely? I've not shattered any 14's thus far but, pardon the pun, those i have are getting long in the tooth (between 20-35 years old. I recently had an 8 shatter and the guts blow out of a 3 axle position 24 but at least i have an adequate abundance of these) and when one too many do eventually go bump in the night for my spares reserves, i'm screwed. Will a 12 take adequate drive if at all from the old style crownwheel and pinion type 28 tooth differential? Although described as more robust than the 14, it has the unfortunate effect if the two will run together of upping the overdrive of wheel to transmission on my baby which already has a pretty low overall ratio from crank through drive axles and the massive inertia of the rotating assembly already loads up the 14 that had previously caused it to skip under high load. Thereby, the universal joints are going to cop an ever greater pounding than they were exposed to. Theres not a whole lot of room in the chassis to throw a further compensatory reduction setup into play to make life easier on the pinion or trans without a lot of redesigning that i'm hesitant to broach. Thank you for your time and hope i've posted this in the correct section.

Might i recommend building anything you purchase immediately? Irrespective of size. So far, have only made two ebay set purchases, and am pleased i had a couple of basics around as both had pieces missing. The second of them the seller included a bricklink checklist that didn't match what arrived. All was sorted out in the end with the missing/wrong (some of which i've since learned are pretty rare and model specific) items dutifully rectified but from 20,000 km away, if i'd left it as purchased and sold it on as was or decided to build it months down the track, i'd have been out of pocket to rectify it myself or subject to negative feedback from the next buyer. Nobody's perfect and mistakes get made but best to know sooner than later.

This little girl filled a hole that i nearly forgot existed. She is not pristine (what from Ebay ever is?) and theres a broken fawcet/sparkplug that i should chase down one day but i was ecstatic to have one after a twenty five year wait. The right hand drive bit is pretty obvious. Bar that, all my love has been poured into the transmission. Will try and put a few photos of where that went astray tomorrow. All standard parts are on it plus a few (period specific besides six toothed half width bushes, likely will swap out for full widths when i get my spares back from mum and dads attic one day) extras and one or two i've chosen to alter/bastardize to get the end effect i was after. Can be returned to box stock easily but its lego: its in pieces when you buy it, and i see nothing wrong with adding to/modifying the base design so as to make it more playable or functional. Thanks.

Ungefaehr :) Thanks for the welcome.

Apologies. General protocol on most forums i frequent is to utilise the search function whereby avoiding duplicate topics. Was that where the necro reference came into play by chance? And is this reply bumping it back to the top a further faux pas or forgiveable ;)

Good evening. Bit new to the changed gear designs. Phantom: does 6589 take the place of the three 14 toothers in the differential or as the "pinion" to the crownwheel feeding the gearbox please?

Hi. Glen here in oz. Been lego'ing a bit over 30 years and still love the stuff. Bought my dream set in 2009 (wanted since age 6) and am still happily tinkering with it and another i bought last year. Love technic and so far have had zero to do with studless. I may come around someday but no mad rush and i fear as to beginning whilst i don't know where it would end. Still yet to regather my older collection but hope to soon. Unlikely to add much of any novelty to the knowledgebase but might post a few details of my babies as i get settled in. Thanks for your time.