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The gear system was actually a really great idea (I wouldn't expect less from Lynn I suppose.) While the pulleys did work pretty well, they did tend to get misaligned a bit (there was a lot of torque and friction/not enough friction and all of that nasty unideal stuff). With gears, although there was still a bit of the torquing problem, the gears turned altogether pretty nicely. Although we did get the solidworks files done before we realized that we wanted to make the turning mechanism out of gears rather than pulleys, it turns out that the large gears (x3) were the same size as our three pulleys, thus we only had to add two more holes for the smaller gears... thanks Lego, for being pretty consistent!
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