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sun-and-planet gear
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sun-and-planet gear

Another term for epicyclic gear.



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In response Watt and William Murdock invented the sun and planet gear system, whereby one or more outer gears, or planet gears, rotate around a central or sun gear.
After leaving Kango Hammers, he went to Planet Gears until his retirement in 1995.
Precision honing of the sun and planet gears produces high efficiency with a backlash of less than 8 arc minutes and exact ratios of 3:1 to 64:1.
 
 
 
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