Chains and sprockets are simpler and cheaper.  JMHO.

Derek

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> On Nov 17, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for sharing your experience.
> 
>> On Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:11:54 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>> as for gears vs sprockets, i don't think you have as much freedom to play 
>> around when using gears as to using sprockets. with gears (to me) they have 
>> to be in an exact place for them to work with the next gear and also takes 
>> away from being able to freely take out a gear and replace it with a 
>> different one (more or less teeth count) to add or decrease rpm's as now it 
>> won't be able to fit into that same space properly. but using sprockets and 
>> chain i think you have a bit more room to play. below is a picture of one of 
>> my motor/trany's and if i find that i want to change something i can and not 
>> have to do anything else other than lengthen or shorten the chain.
>>  
>> but if you have everything worked out (rpm's, gears, etc) and are able to 
>> build a nice gear box, build the gear box, but if your not sure, i'd go with 
>> something a bit more forgiving to work with and use sprockets and chain
>>  
>> 
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