Suspend those pesky physics laws!
Winston wrote:
On 3/7/2010 6:17 PM, Bill McKee wrote:
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Do not know how it came to be called a Geneva gear.
A 4-step Geneva mechanism has a part that looks like a "Swiss cross",
the name must come from that. Of course, there are variants of the
mechanism that have a different number of steps per full rev of the
output shaft.
Jon
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