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By: Smooth LEGO Clutch with Differential | BrickEngineer: LEGO Design

Smooth LEGO Clutch with Differential | BrickEngineer: LEGO Design — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:40:25 +0000

[...] a previous post, I describe the design of a smooth LEGO [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:09:42 +0000

Hi Zane

Check out the more advanced version
http://www.brickengineer.com/pages/2008/05/31/smooth-lego-clutch-with-differential/
with the differential gear.
You can put a motor on this and use the motor to engage or disengage the clutch.

By: Zane Staab

Zane Staab — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:57:27 +0000

Do you have any suggestions as to how you can shift gears remotely so you can put a car in motion and keep it in motion?

By: mescalinum

mescalinum — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:46:29 +0000

the standard Lego clutch requires force only if used with the rigged connector (6538b), but you can use the smooth connector (6538c) and it requires no force to move the driving ring

By: Rampa

Rampa — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:26:08 +0000

Wow, this is a great gearbox blog.

By: Barryke

Barryke — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:34:28 +0000

By now you’ve realized it isn’t that easy to connect the shifting axis to (for example) a motor without a extra-wide gear?
Try a sync shifting axis with a lengtwise alignment of 3 semi gears connecting to another axis with 2 like so:

–|–|-|—— your gearbox
—|-|-|— motor

this way some gears align all the time.

Or maybe i’m missing something and you’ve got it figured out some better way.