Hi,

Today I came up with a way to make my Super Compact 8 Sequential Speed Gearbox even smaller with a width reduction of 3L, and simplifications on the stepper (like before, the other half of the stepper must be external and your own implementation)

I achived this by making good use of the fact that it is possible to make a lot of gear combinations that just are not possible with whole unit spacing (eg:1L,2L,3L,4L,etc)

There was a few things I knew I could not change like the orange rotaty shifter having a maximum spacing of 3L with the the outermost top clutch rings but the bottom ones actually connect at 3Lx2.5L and there are some strange ratios too like 24:16 and still have 16:!6 work as well as 20:12.

Here are the pictures, I wonder if theres away to now get rid of some of the gears that are outside of the frame since we can replace these with just 2 more weird ratios tthat only work with non-whole unit spacing:

I also shorted the limiter and stepper mechanism by accident really haha, I noticed that the pinhole with two opposing axles would catch on the 2L liftarms when I tried just making the typical stepper mechanism with rubber bands, so then I just replaced it with a white 1x1 beam and put another 1x1 beam in the pinhole for the limiter.

LDR file and instructions coming soon, I need to contact @1963maniac

Regards, Snipe

Edited March 12, 20213 yr by SNIPE

Interesting work!

Very nice!

I will tried it on my next build.