Sacramento, CA
Mike,
I have seen both break/lose teeth.
Why not use delrin? Should be much cheaper to make I would assume, and bring the price down. I personally would have to pass at 100 bucks a pop for gears.
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:When will someone figure out why those gears even break in the first place? It's gotta be a design flaw. Perhaps an added resistor could calm down the jaw motor.
NOS ones will break over time, no matter what. You are talking about 20+ year old plastic that dries out and gets brittle.
The new repro ones were just made with garbage materials.
FWIW, my repro ones I bought years ago broke within a month. Stuck my NOS ones back in and they have been going strong since.
Delrin or metal is the answer, but @ 100 bucks a pop, I simply cannot justify the price right now.
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