Coming up dry for Alps/Radio Shack/Atari/Commodore plotter gears

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Apr 22 15:11:00 2003

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> That sounds interesting for a large enough gear, but in this case, it's
> about 1/8" in diameter and 5/32" long with a bore of 1/20".
>
> I don't think I'll be trying to whack and/or notch a chunk of plastic
> that's smaller than a tic-tac.

What type of plastic were these gears made from? I was thinking about
pulling out one of my plotters, but I don't exactly remember where I put
it right now ;P

If they are made of nylon, I'm surprised that they split. I really expect
to find that they were made of some kind of ABS or ABS blended plastic
that didn't handle the press-fit pressure very well.

Has anyone contacted Alps to see if maybe they might know where the gears
were made originally? It's certainly possible a set of molds might still
be sitting around somewhere...

-Toth
Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 15:11:00 BST