This Trammel Gear Mechanism Will Change Piston Engine Builds Forever! 

What other cool mechanisms should we look at in Scrap Mechanic?

its insane how much content you could make just looking at different gear mechanisms

I'm genuinely fascinated by the fact you're discovering trammel gear mechanisms for the first time as a robotics engineer. I'm not as highly qualified an engineer as you are, but was clearly quite lucky to be introduced to trammel gears as a child, by my dad, a mechanical engineer. It's so magical seeing someone learn a new engineering principle and getting to experience, vicariously, the joy of realizing how amazingly clever these mechanisms are.

Very cool. You've been more excited and passionate in these last couple videos talking about physics and engineering than you have been in a while. It's super nice to see :).

So basically, you could create a working gearbox by selecting which trammel to use (ie which gear ratio) and not only will you be able to choose at what speed to go, but you'll also be able to adjust the torque you'll need ! Looking forward to see someone build this.

I'm looking forward to how you apply all this stuff in the challenges. I can't say I understand everything, but I'm learning a lot from watching these vids. Thanks, kAN.

I haven't played SM in a very long time... but watching you explain all these complexes mechanism is actually very relaxing... No idea why but keep those coming!!

Hey, super nice that you figured out the trammel gears, they are super useful if you dont want to mess with your engine stroke. Regarding the challenges, the only thing that may be an issue (might be more of an issue on the hard - insane levels) is that the trammel gears require super high reinforcing so everything meshes well enough, I have been having issues with this myself. One thing they are super good for is speed as they dont require much reinforcement and you can solve the problem of the soft rpm cap of normal stroke, single piston per cylinder engines without messing with anything super technical. Loving the piston vids so far, cant wait to see more in the future, I think the inline 3 needs an upgrade!

i love your videos where you are just so genuinely excited about a mechanism or a build. it really translates through the medium and is the content i come here for.

This is pretty cool! I've never known these existed in vanilla! Way awesome!

I'm realy liking these videos, seeing you be happy makes all of us happy

Would love to see, "best launchers", in a video. Cannons, wheel launchers, glitch launchers, etc.... basically anything that will launch your character.

I thank you for showing us the Trammel Gear assembly. I wish there was a better way to make U joints in vanilla, so this could be used to make a proper engine and drive train

at least you can build a functioning piston engine, mine just steps 90 degrees, waits and repeats and idk why

Using this could you try to make a car with a working shifter for different gears including reverse? It would be really cool to see

This is revolutional! It opens so much potential. hyped

PLEASE do a piston powered survival run! There would be so many cool and unique vehicles, and each with a differently tuned engine for different purposes instead of just 1 truck doing everything! No gas engines, no electric engines, only piston power, maybe controllers for slower things.

There's this game called "Besiege". You should really try it out as it gives the player insane freedom of building (engines included).

This is amazing! Please explore more, and present them here. :)

YESSSS!!! More mechanical and engineering stuff!!

i love the type of content you teach us things that we see in other videos ❤❤❤❤

try adding this to your explosive engine that wasnt able to move the car i feel like one of these would make it work

I am loving the return of mechanical stuff to the channel.

I made a survival piston powered car with a 4 piston iteration of your engine and with one trammel gear and it is quite good.

This info is very useful for vanilla and challenge mode

The even cooler thing is that this wasn't hard coded, it's just a product of the simulation going on. Nobody told the game that it must spin x times for a certain gear and that torque would change. However it just makes sense because this is the result of physics playing out.

looking forward to the piston engine challenge keep up the good work

This is the kind of content I love from Kan

That's so cool, you should try to make a transmission with multiples gears with these tremel gears

That is legit, now I want to design a survival piston engine that uses this system.

i always used to use the boots as my traction pieces for weird wheels

You know I used to make fun of people like you in high school. Worst part about it is I've turned into a bigger nerd than most of the people I would tease for their enthusiasm of math. Cool video!!

11:19 - "And theoretically weld this to the same spot."

Cool video!

Strangely enough, after that best builds video I am now using that gear system in my piston landship.

I hope this means there will be an updated video on how to build piston engines!

I'd love to see if this type of gearing mechanism could make a large bridge layer. Basically expand a massive bridge or act as a better draw bridge on a castle style build.

kan please make a piston engine tutorial like you did with the logic gate tutorials back then! it really got me to understand logic gates so much better and jumpstarted me into building cool things with logic in my own game. I mean I understood a little bit of logic gates cause I studied IT back in uni but your tutorial videos made me understand it so much better! I know there are probably other channels I could watch for piston engine tutorials but most of the time I can't find any that explains as well as you do

When I saw him making a tow line ABOVE rear axle at 11:00 I was screaming at monitor: "Stop it will wheelie" I guess he was so hyped he forgot how physics works :D

make a race car that can drive around any race track perfectly without a driver (a speed roomba)

12:25 Kan, I think the hay-bale wheels are off the ground, mate. 12:28 Confirmed, the wheels are off the ground. You need the weights between the normal wheels and hay-bale wheels of each side. 13:22 So the hay bales are heavy enough to make contact with the ground, huh? Interesting. Thanks for sharing the mechanism!

I hope each challenge in the challenge mod have to make you search how to solve them. Im really excited to see how it will works in the challenge mod !

Funny thing is about 2 weeks ago Kan had a video he posted about community creations and came across a trammel gear on a piston motorcycle he highlighted. And was so confused by it. 😂😂

Never thought I'd see a scrap mechanic vanilla build with hub reduction 😂

11:45 that happened because the connection rod is far above and perpendicular to the rear axle (which acts like a pivot point)

You would need some kind of differential if you want some decent steering. Or make it fwd.

New drinking game: one shot per "theoretically", 2 shots per "2:1"

Technical kAN has RETURNED!!!

For carrying vehicles you use torque for speed you use the speed option

I am 99% sure you could embed the pistons in the trammel, i don't know how it would do torque or speed wise but it should work and be pretty darn compact

We need a new tree house survival video

This is huge

I'm gonna have to try bolting one of these to a spud gun car.

the mechanical parts mod has really good gears, you should try it

We had a giant arm with all the weight we could muster on it and we still couldn't do the hardest torque challenge because of the massive slop in the physics.

Bro really became kAN academy for a second at the beginning “I love the math!”

This would be a gööd multiplayer player Monday challenge, piston power Olympics

I wanna see kan try the other piston challenges(you don't need to do the challenges before it jsut skip with yellow button)

New drinking game; Every time you hear the word, "theoretically", in this video, you drink! Lol luv ya bud. Great episode!!!

i tried making this and the back yellow block skips because it doesn't attach to the tube and piston, how do I fix this?

A planetary gear can give you a higher gear ratio. I had a atv winch with a 200/1 ratio the ring gear was split in two halfs one gear had three fewer teeth on the same diameter and the sun was driven hope this can help you 😄

wow u figured this out

1. 100% will build 2. Fant wench mod with wall guides then try unweighted with undoubled wheels 3. Fant gearbox compo

Would it be possible to create functioning gears on a vehicle by engaging trammel gears whilst moving?

Are you able to make a star gear (hub reduction as I know it from trucks) similar concept only using planetary gears

Know we need a clutch and transmission. This would make it even more viable in survival.

THE POSSIBILITIES!!!

these piston engines are way over my head...

Now I want to see a moving base in survival

When nerds try to do something related to mechanical. Your weight on the front of them was lifting the rear ends hence losing traction, you needed to move the weight towards the back a bit, not more wheels

Now turn this into a 3 speed gearbox, with reverse :)

So when are you going to whip together a trammel geared piston engine vehicle for a multiplayer monday?

You should build a faster piston powered airplane using this mechanism

*The length of the member changes*- kan 2023

How about an impact driver

do you think you will do another survival series or not?

Now the question is how do you make a transmission using these trammel gears.

Its a bummer we cant do things like this in trailmakers

Biggeycheese69420 was the one to find this :)

think using them in the survival mode would reduce the amount of gas consumed?

Is there a reason why you specifically use component kits in the trammel gear?

i wish i had scrapmechanic

Try to install both 1:2 and 2:1 ratio on one single vehicle and make an toggle switch to be able to turn off one and turn on other one. For example, first one when you hit the gas should be with higher torque/less speed, then after gaining some speed switch to speed one. The vehicle should be in top places in any race. Just imagine, when you start a real car and start driving, basically you will need more torque/power to start moving vehicle then you can just switch to another gear for speed. Or slap even few gear system like 2:1 for start, then 1:1 for gaining speed and then 1:2 for max speed. you know what I mean lol

please do this in a multiplayer monday

Hi Kan, look at my piston powered plane, it has two engines, both run at 1k rpm, max speed 140b/s. Name in workshop: "Fast piston plane mk2" also i have few piston cars with speed record.

You should play a survival world but for instead of using engines or controllers you have to use piston engines and this gear ratio

Try stacking the pistons on one of another, there are some guides here on yt for that

Your drawbar needed to be at or maybe below the axle centerline.

make a gear sistum with this

You have the gear ratios reversed if you want speed it 1:2 ratio if you want tourqe it is a 2:1 For example: 1:2 means one rotation of the driver gear causes two rotations of the follower gear. This is acceleration - the speed is increased 2 times, the torque is decreased 2 times. You get double speed but half of the torque.

We miss the face on the side

Can you make a v6 piston engine

anyone else find it ironic that in the tug of war. in a video about torque, kan completely ignores torque on the drawbar :p

15 minutes of Kan explaining the difference between a lamborgini racecar and a lamborgini tractor.

this is my first time being so early.

I've made the same years ago

Not to plug another RU-vidr but a RU-vidr called Oxynity did a video with a geqrs mod car.

day 2 of asking kAN to collab with Reid Captain to make some crazy mechanisms

Soooo... why component kits and not other block or part?

The gear system is soo good it crashed my game XD.