That music makes me feel like I could go out and conquer the world. This isnt just a worm drive, the music turned it into the magical worm drive of a shining golden god!
+Josh Denham I feel like the music is celebrating my victory in beating a great evil and delivering world peace. Not sure what the worm gear is for though.
Was hoping for some explanatory comments on the physics / mechanics of worm drives. And the dramatic music could have been removed. Didn't feel readily informed beyond what intuitive grasp (a little) I already had on the subject.
this is great, your animation skills are impressive but on an engineering level, why bother building a worm-and-spur gear assembly, when you could simply hook up gears to the motor itself, slow it down that way or maybe this is not your concern. i am still impressed with the animation, and it would be understandable if you could care less about the efficiency of the mechanism you have designed...
Typically the worm gear is the leader and rotates the spare gear. My question is can we reverse the direction of the rotation and make spare gear the leader in any circumstances ?
Nobody uses a worm gear as a speed increaser. (Why is 'reducer' a word but 'increaser' is not a word?) Why can't a worm gear be as speed increaser? How is it different from standard wheel gears? Is there more friction in a worm gear?
The worm gear's purpose is to give you more torque thanks to its thread's step. On the input of that convertor you can put a set of gears to boost the speed up(passing from a bigger to a smaller gear and then to the convertor). AND the final gear shown in the video could be smaller to increase the speed. You should still get plenty of torque thanks to the worm gear, I believe :)
I have a question, though. How did you make the chain? I've been working on a motorcycle engine in Inventor (school project) and I can get the "blue ribbon" thing from design accelerator but that's pretty much where it stops. I've seen it done a couple times here on RU-vid but no one's really explained how it's done.
@confedswede i find worm gear reducers can reduce by far greater ratios than regular gears i have one in a device i made which needed a 40:1 ratio and it only take up 4 cubic centimeters, wouldnt be able to do that with regular gears
