Jay's gearbox guide

I've struggled a lot with the making of gearboxes. I did find a guidefrom T3 (http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale3/Users/EldradUlthran/Gearbox_Guide) and some explanations here: http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale6/Gearbox_Design_Guide and http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale6/Gearbox.

Still I kept having problems and mostly tried them on a trial/error basis, which most of the times got me frustated :) so eventually, when I did manage to make them, I tried to write this guide.

Step 1 - What do you need

• Gearbox Assembly Table
• Gearbox design tech
• a stash of Small Gears, Medium Gears, Large Gears
• wikipage for the gear ratio's: http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale6/Gearbox_Ratios or you can use: http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale6/Tamutnefret_Gearbox_Ratios
• patience :)

Step 2 - Different gearpairs

• spacer, used to start a new layer (no cost)
• one step (photo) 3/3 only allows to move in a +-shape (cost=small gears)
• diagonal (photo) 4/4 cheap
• 3/5, 5/3, 5/3, 3/5 makes a large change in ratio)(cost= medium gears)
• two steps up or sideways (photo) 5/6, 6/5, 4/7, 7/4 (makes smaller changes in ratio)(cost when using 7gear: large gears)
• knight's move (photo) 6/6, 5/7, 7/5

• • 4/4 is much cheaper then 6/6 , although with 6/6 you move over large distances)
  • 3/3, 4/4, 6/6 makes no change in ratio (photo)
  • 3/5, 5/6, 4/7 makes the ratio go up (photo)
  • 5/3, 6/5, 7/4, 7/5 makes the ratio go down (photo)

Step 3 - Useful to know

• you always start at 1A, ratio 100
• 8 rows, 8 columns
• you always need to end at row 8
• only 30 shafts can beused - including spacers????
• no more then 3 layers are possible
• always put the smallest gear on the bottom, ex: spacer, 3-gear, 5-gear on top of each other, not spacer, 5-gear, 3-gear
• only 3/3, 4/4, 3/5, 5/3, 5/6, 6/5, 6/6, 4/7, 7/4, 5/7, 7/5 pairs can be used