FCGear LanternGear

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FCGear LaternGear

Menu location
FCGear → Create a Latern gear
Workbenches
FCGear
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
v0.16
See also
None

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Description

Lantern gears are a very old type of gearing, which used to be frequently found in mills. At that time, wooden bars were used. Nowadays these are low-friction trundles. Lantern gears are still used when heavy loads have to be transmitted at low speeds, e.g. for driving large telescopes.