Talk 1520 - your experiences

[nuz69]

As the spur use itself with time, I thought that I had to move the pinion closer to the spur, but with this method I used my pinions pretty quickly... So now I decide to stick with the original shimming when the spur was new, and it seems to work, my pinions and spur dont use themselves anymore. At least for the moment...
I run with the mesh you see in the photo

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

hmmm.... just curious... how did you determine the distance between the spur and pinion?

[nuz69]

I have some plastic piece between motor and chassis reinforcement, which keep the motor to move latteraly, and it give me information on the shimming too.
And I can feel it with the play between pinion and spur when I move the spur up and down.

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

zeen... I get a little confused myself when meshing metal gears... with plastic spurs and metal pinions i used the 'Paper Method'... running a sheet of paper
between the gears to achieve a relatively good mesh... But I'm sure if that method can be used with metal gears...

[nuz69]

Some people do that with metal ;)
But I prefer the hearing method, I hear carefully the noise that my mesh is doing to adjust precisely the shimming. I use my eyes too, with habit you can see a proper or bad mesh, and the noise confirm it !