Re: Re:Engineering 101

[<jblair1948@cox.net>]

> Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com> wrote:
> 
> Bevel gears would work, but you might also be thinking of a worm
> to turn a straight gear.
> 
> http://auto.howstuffworks.com/gear5.htm
> 
> http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/JSAPP/wormgear/wormgear.html

Not having read the above 2 links - they may say this, the
one nice thing about the worm gear is they are supposedly 
self locking. So if you have a load you are lifting, and 
stop, the load won't try and lower itself.  It will stay 
put.

John