Picture request: HW drivetrains

[daveimi]

Ok. Is it possible to fabricate cheap gearboxes using say pre-made Mod 2 gears?

[maddox10]

Yes, that is perfectly possible, if you can buy the gears cheap. Know your way with bronze bushings and have a fair hand with a pillardrill and a good eye for marking the holes.

For a heavy gearbox, not to expensive I would use lasercut 5mm steel plates 15 and/or 20mm steel axles and bronze bushings.

In Bullfrog there is a version of that. Unfortunatly, we used custom made ali gears to get the weight down, and that blew the "cheap" to "barely affordable".