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Originally Posted by DCM
Next year, with a month ending in a Y...
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Let me guess... It will be July?
I may by the way have (another) explanation for the choice of 4 aluminium gears. (Other than Tamiya's fetish for aluminium gears)
They could've done it with two steel gears, but this system is likely to be too heavy. If you use aluminium, roughly 3 times as light (and 3 times weaker), you could use 4 gears and still save weight. They may also be not as strong, but most of the difference in strength is covered by using the extra gears. Perhaps the two steel gears give an amount of strength they don't need, so they saw an opportunity to save weight by using two more gears and aluminium instead of steel?