Bob,
yeah that's the website I got on to. After days of frustration looking, hehe.
I have tried about 20 suppliers around Melbourne, other than actual gear manufacturers (last resort).
Every supplier says the same thing "Sorry can't help - Have no concept why you would want such a reduction - No idea mate, we don't deal in that - Sorry mate, don't know who can supply such a thing"
No one wants to help or understand what I'm asking for.
I have tried about 10 odd hobby shops, all have spur gears with a lot of backlash and bugger all reduction. Most don't even stock a worm.
However, I found 2 places that had somehwat of a chance.
The local bearing shop had a supplier called "Naismith" that made a gearbox with near zerobacklash called "Zeromax".
However, functionality was looking good until it required a minimum of 140 RPM's on the input, which is sort of pointless. It needed that speed for oil splashing. And the cost for the functionality, was basically "Astronomical"
, excuse the pun
The other, sort of success (if you call it that), is JAYCAR.
They have some gear sets there, but it's a case of, "Look and laugh".
They are plastic and very very light duty - for toys.
Some DC electric motors have a gearhead on them, however, lots of backlash, which was the last of the "last resorts".
Now, with that HobbyParts website, no one locally stocks anything.
Which is disappointing. Not so much what I was requesting for, but abolsutely nothing was stocked, yet they call themselves a "distributor".
I might as well order it online and get it myself. Pointless for the middle man.
I found a gear with 360 teeth on it, I have emailed them about it, but no repsonse.
It was about $200 for that gear and another $90 odd bucks for the actual worm gear.
I was actually after a Duplex Worm set, as both gears mesh / conform to each other and backlash (IMHO) is reduced to very low levels.
But this gear set is close to a duplex.
They key is, I want to see it in the flesh, before I purchase. I want to know it's going to work, but business doesn't work that way.
Oh well, they miss out on a sale.
I'm still searching all alternatives, even from my work.
Brett.