When you think of a gear, what do you picture? Chances are you imagined the spur gear mechanism inside a clock. While this is correct, gears do more than help us keep time. Gears may seem like simple machinery, but there’s a lot more to them than meets the eye. From the rack and pinion …Continued

A gear is a machine part that moves in a revolving manner to create torque. Metal teeth protrude from gears, and these teeth are spaced out at regular intervals around the circumference of the gear. The teeth allow the gear to match or mesh with another gear to provide rotational force. Gears are considered instrumental …Continued

Most people have grasped the general concept of what a gear is, and what it does, but they likely don’t know that there are various kinds of gears that each perform completely different jobs in different industries. In order for you to make sure that you’re getting the right gears for your project, here are …Continued

Are you looking for replacements for worn out gears? There might be more to custom gears than you ever realized. Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic, once said that “life is like a ten speed bicycle — most of us have gears we never use.” One place gears are used is in …Continued

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In purely scientific terms, gears are used to transmit motion. They’re really good at what they do, too, which is probably why they’ve been used by craftsmen and other laborers for centuries. One of the earliest recorded references to gear use was in 50 AD, though there’s more than a little evidence that suggests the …Continued